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wage:

... payment by an employer for labor or services rendered; a type of compensation, such as money, given to a worker (a wage earner) as payment for a service. Business Dictionary.com offers a definition of wage as well as one for wages. When considering production factors, wages means the cost of the use of labor by an enterprise, as opposed to its use of capital or property.

Answers.com offers and explanation of real wage. Wikipedia has an article about minimum wage tied to another about the working poor. Wages are are affected by the availability of workers to fill jobs which, in turn, are affected by the availability of enterprise management and production methods as well as tools, machines, and places of work.

Wage earners as employees may earn their pay working by the hour, day or week on a regularly scheduled basis. Those who do piecework may also be wage earners. Workers are paid at different wage levels based on various factors such as skill level or experience, or what the market will bare, i.e. based on supply and demand. A wage level, AKA wage scale, a schedule of average pay to workers doing specific jobs in an area taking into account performance of related tasks or services as well as supply and demand.

Area and local development representatives often survey job categories and wage levels in order to provide the information to prospects. Wage survey may appear as a data category at the websites and location profiles of places seeking enoomic development. A slide presentation on how to use wage survey data is available at www.nh.gov (New Hampshire labor market data).

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wage survey:

... a tool used by local economic development organizations to collect data about what workers are paidsee the Summary for Best Practices for Local Economic Development. The website of the New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau shows an example of how wage surveys are made available online. The website has a slide presentation on how to use wage survey data. Wage surveys are provided to economic development prospects in location packages.

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