How to Use nominal wages in a Sentence

nominal wages

plural noun
  • Sure, on average and given enough time, nominal wages might rise to match the nominal price level.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Although nominal wages of some workers have risen, raises are largely canceled by higher prices.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2021
  • The second is zero future growth in nationwide average nominal wages.
    — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Inflation is causing real wages to decline despite rising nominal wages.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • Rising prices and nominal wages pushed voters into higher tax brackets, draining their discretionary income.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 June 2023
  • Recent data show, however, that the problem rich countries face is not that nominal wage growth has failed to respond to economic conditions.
    — The Economist, 30 June 2018
  • Higher nominal wages move more taxpayers more quickly into higher tax brackets even if their real standard of living declines.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
  • There is also a growing understanding that nominal wages can continue to rise while inflation declines.
    — Matthew Nestler, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • While annual average nominal wages for full-time nurses in the UK have risen in the past decade, real wages — which adjust for inflation — have dropped.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
  • As nominal wages and prices rise, that adjustment will shield more money from taxation and block inflation—currently above 5% on an unadjusted annual rate—from causing a sharp tax increase.
    — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2021
  • In Japan, nominal wages rose at the fastest pace in nearly three decades in December, supporting the Bank of Japan's latest rate hike decision and keeping the bank on track for further tightening steps.
    — Lim Hui Jie,anniek Bao, CNBC, 16 June 2026
  • The pre-industrial economy yielded no productivity increases sufficient to boost real wages, and even nominal wages scarcely rose because there wasn’t much inflation in the pre-industrial economy.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2022

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