wage hike
IPA: wˈeɪdʒaɪk
noun
- the amount a salary is increased
Examples of "wage-hike" in Sentences
- State Senate Democrats issued a public statement supporting the wage-hike legislation.
- Analysts have been cutting their earnings estimates for Hon Hai following the successive wage-hike announcements.
- BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentina's main labor group is suspending wage-hike requests through December due to the world financial crisis.
- Thanks to a three-tiered federal minimum wage-hike that Congress approved two years ago, starting July 24 employers are required to pay hourly workers at least $7.25 per hour.
- MANILA - The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), the country's largest organization of teachers, denounced on Wednesday a proposed public-sector wage-hike bill pending in the House of Representatives that will favor military and uniformed personnel over employees in the civilian bureaucracy.