living wage
Enough to survive
A living wage is the minimum income necessary to meet basic needs—housing, food, healthcare, transportation—without government assistance.
It differs from minimum wage, which is a legal floor that may fall short of actual living costs: The minimum wage here is $7.25, but the living wage is closer to $18.
Living wage calculations vary by region, reflecting local costs of living.
Money gained from work
- salaryFixed periodic employment payment
- paycheckCompensation for labor
- compensationPayment for services rendered
- remunerationPayment for work done
hourly rate · take-home pay · pay scale · base pay · income level · pay rate · annual income · household income
Requirements for survival
- necessitiesWhat you cannot lack
- affordabilityState of being purchasable
- expensesMoney spent on things
- rentPayment for temporary use
housing costs · healthcare costs · utilities · childcare costs · transportation costs · survival · making ends meet · paycheck to paycheck
Impartial treatment or ownership value
- justiceFair treatment under law
- equalitySame status for all
- fair payReasonable compensation for work
- economic justiceFair allocation of resources
dignity · decency · ethics · fair compensation · labor rights · worker rights · exploitation · inequality
Rules governing work conditions
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
- advocacyPleading for a cause
indexing · enforcement · campaign · ballot measure · labor movement · unionization · collective bargaining · policy reform
earnings
Money gained from work
- salaryFixed periodic employment payment
- paycheckCompensation for labor
- compensationPayment for services rendered
remuneration · hourly rate · take-home pay · pay scale · base pay · income level · pay rate · annual income · household income · disposable income
basic needs
Requirements for survival
- necessitiesWhat you cannot lack
- affordabilityState of being purchasable
- expensesMoney spent on things
rent · housing costs · healthcare costs · utilities · childcare costs · transportation costs · survival · making ends meet · paycheck to paycheck · working poor
equity
Impartial treatment or ownership value
economic justice · dignity · decency · ethics · fair compensation · labor rights · worker rights · exploitation · inequality · social justice
labor policy
Rules governing work conditions
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
advocacy · indexing · enforcement · campaign · ballot measure · labor movement · unionization · collective bargaining · policy reform · employment law
- economic inequalityincome inequality, wealth gap, income gap, pay gap, racial wealth gap
- pay ratesovertime pay, time-and-a-half, time and a half, base rate, night rate
- wage datapay rates, pay scales, pay grades, income levels, payroll data
- Catholic social teachingCST, encyclicals, human dignity, subsidiarity, common good
- eco-friendlysustainable, fair trade, green, biodegradable, recyclable
- living conditionshousing, income, employment, healthcare access, education access
living wagestarvation wage
Pay insufficient for living
subsistence wage · minimum wage · pittance · bare minimum · peanuts
living wagewage suppression
Artificially limiting worker compensation
race to the bottom · worker exploitation · cheap labor · wage theft
alive, living, wage, wages, livelihood, enliven, outlive, waged, relive