66 Quotes About Wages

The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer.

My men are my money.

Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.

If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.

It's humbling, this business of applying for low-wage jobs, consisting as it does of offering yourself--your energy, your smile, your real or faked lifetime of experience--to a series of people for whom this is just not a very interesting package.

It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.

A living wage should be high enough that two parents working full time could support a family of four above the poverty line.

A living wage provides the basics of food, clothing, and shelter along with access to transportation and basic health care without further government assistance.

Growth of productive capital and rise of wages, are they really, so indissolubly united as the bourgeois economists maintain? We must not believe their mere words. We dare not believe them even when they claim that the fatter capital is the more will its slave be pampered.