living wages
Sufficient worker compensation
Living wages are compensation sufficient for a worker to meet basic needs—food, housing, healthcare—without relying on government assistance.
The term implies a moral standard beyond minimum wage: The city requires contractors to pay living wages.
Often used in debates about economic justice and fair labor practices.
- basic needsRequirements for survival
- paycheckCompensation for labor
- take home payEarnings after all deductions
- incomeRegular monetary receipts
- fair compensationAppropriate payment for work
labor unions · earnings · economic justice · poverty line · human dignity · income inequality · worker solidarity · sustenance · worker rights · blue collar · purchasing power · economic sustainability · food security · overtime · sweatshop · housing affordability · paycheck to paycheck · hourly
- sustainable foodorganic farming, organic food, local food, farm to table, sustainable seafood
- tropical cropscocoa pods, cacao pods, coffee cherry, coffee plant, robusta
living wagespoverty wages
Pay too low to survive on
starvation wages · subsistence wages · minimum wage · slave wages · pittance
living wageslabor exploitation
Unfair treatment of workers
wage theft · race to the bottom · sweatshop labor · unfair wages · worker exploitation
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