median wage

According to the report, the median wage of all restaurant workers in the city was $8.00 an hour.

Food has never been cheaper as a % of the median wage.

Consider the median wage of full-time workers who are at least 25 years old.

Asian workers' median wage was about 1 percent higher than that of white workers.

At no other time have median wages of American men fallen for more than two decades.

In the last 30 years, the median wage of American workers declined and the poverty rate increased.

So far, by most measures, median wages are still inching up.

'but only by pricing their services at twice the national median wage.

Median wages were the second lowest in the state.

For 20 years the median wage has dropped, while the two parties have hauled in hundreds of millions from business groups.

Should executives be paid 20 times the median wages of their employees or 300 times?

The median wage is the lowest in the state, and that status is expected to continue through 2010.

Other measures of average or median wages offer similar evidence of stagnation.

The report concluded that two-thirds of the growth was in full-time employment at more than $480 a week, the nation's median wage.

Ditching those of us living on much less than the median wage signals betrayal at the start.

Mr. Clinton noted that despite a thriving economy the median wage had dropped by 1 percent over the past 30 months.

For the last 20 years, median wages adjusted for inflation have remained flat.

"These are the least skilled people entering the workforce, and that would have a downward pull on median wages."

That influx has stopped, and the median wage has responded by rising.

With the median wage, adjusted for inflation, lower now than in 1980, most middle-class families cannot afford additional taxes.

It has also helped to further weaken unions and reduce wage inflation, with median wages now 3 percent below what they were in 1979.

The raw median wages of men and women are often used in misleading ways to inform public policy, without explaining the reasons behind the gap.

In fact, there were fewer people earning less than half the median wage in 1985 than before.

The snag is that the median wage for these jobs is about $8.19 an hour, and they don't come with health insurance or pensions.

As bonus payments in the City dry up, median wages will fall and so inequality will reduce.