“We define wages as hours worked,” plaintiff attorney Richard Hayber told the Second Circuit. “We have no exclusions in our statute, like the Portal-to-Portal Act has. There is no such thing as a ...

US wages have been on the rise, but it sure hasn’t felt like it. For more than two years, persistent and pervasive inflation has taken big bites out of Americans’ paychecks.

By most accounts, wages have risen faster than inflation in the 2020s. Yet, for many Americans, it doesn’t feel that way. A closely watched Index of Consumer Sentiment, published by the ...

With inflation easing, the wages of working-class Americans are finally moving into the plus column. Average hourly pay for production and nonsupervisory workers — who make up four-fifths of ...

California prison officials have proposed doubling wages for incarcerated workers, from a minimum of 8 cents an hour to a minimum of 16 cents an hour.

Wages in the education and health services sector, for example, have risen 12.7% in this time, while wages in the leisure and hospitality industry have grown by nearly 50%.