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HOURLY EARNINGS

Specialty Definition: HOURLY EARNINGS

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Data refer to gross wages or salaries of full-time workers. Included are all regular payments including pay for time not worked e. g. vacation, regular bonuses, overtime pay, travel expenses. Excluded are one-off bonuses, children's allowances, bad weather compensation etc. Source: European Union. (references)
 Data refer to average hourly earnings of wage-earners(including working foremen)and comprise wages for time worked, i. e. time rates, piece rates, shift supplements, overtime supplements and regularly paid bonuses and premiums. From 1993, the figures exclude retroactive wage supplements. Source: European Union. (references)
 Correspond to total earnings per hour worked by all employees. These include basic pay, long-service supplements, payments for dangerous work, overtime and bonuses(including Christmas bonuses), profit shares, back-pay and payments in kind. Source: European Union. (references)
 Data refer to gross earnings before deductions for taxes, social security contributions and fines payable by employees. Gross earnings also include commissions for sales, incentive pay, cost of living and family allowances, remuneration for time not worked such as vacations, other time off with pay, and bonuses and gratuities paid regularly. They exclude rent and transport allowances, irregularly paid bonuses and gratuities and earnings in kind. Source: European Union. (references)
 The ratio "wages and salaries / hours worked", used European Monetary Institute(EMI), the predecessor of the European Central Bank. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: HOURLY EARNINGS

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Economic History

Norway

Despite attempts to curb wage growth, Norwegian blue-collar hourly earnings remain high from a global perspective. (references)

Ireland

In the business and distribution services sector, data show that weekly earnings rose by 8.4 percent in 2000. In the building and construction sector, where shortages of labor are particularly acute, hourly earnings for all operatives were 12.7 percent higher last year. (references)

Women

Netherlands

According to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, in 2000 the average hourly earnings of men exceeded those of women by 23 percent; however, some women continued to make steady progress by moving into professional and high-visibility jobs. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HOURLY EARNINGS

Language Translations for "HOURLY EARNINGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

timeloen (hourly wages, time rate, time wage), timefortjeneste (hourly wages, time rate, time wage), tidloen (hourly wages, time rate, time wage). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

uurloon (hourly wages, time rate, time wage), tijdloon (hourly wages, time rate, time wage). (various references)

   

French

  

salaire payé au temps (hourly wages), salaire horaire (hourly wages), salaire en régie (hourly wages), salaire au temps (hourly wages), salaire l'heure (hourly wages), rémunération l'heure (hourly wages), gains horaires (hourly wages). (various references)

   

German

  

Zeitlohn (hourly rate), Stundenverdienste (hourly wages, time rate, time wage), Stundenlohn (hourly wage, wages per hour), Stundenlöhne (hourly wages, time rate, time wage), Stundenentgelt (hourly wages, time rate, time wage). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μισθός ανά ώρα (hourly wages, time rate, time wage), ωριαίες αποδοχές (hourly wages, time rate, time wage), ωρομίσθιο (hourly wages). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tariffa oraria (hourly rate, hourly wages, time rate, time related charge, time wage), salario orario (hourly wages, time rate, time wage). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ourlyhay earningsay

   

Spanish

  

salario según tiempo (hourly wages, time rate, time wage), salario por hora (hourly wages, time rate, time wage), retribución por horas (hourly wages, time rate, time wage), remuneración por horas (hourly wages, time rate, time wage). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HOURLY EARNINGS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-n-n-o-r-r-s-u-y"

-4 letters: hoarsening, languisher, neuroglias, rearousing, sanguinely, unerringly, unleashing.

-5 letters: ashlering, aureoling, enhaloing, ensouling, geraniols, granulose, guanosine, hanseling, heinously, houseling, hurraying, hyalogens, inhaulers, layerings, learnings, legionary, longhairs, lyonnaise, narghiles, nargilehs, neuroglia, nongreasy, nourisher, onrushing, organiser, reasoning, regionals, rehousing, reloaning, roaringly, roguishly, rousingly, searingly, shearling, sloughier, slurrying, unhorsing, unlashing, unsealing, yeanlings, yearlings, yearnings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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