incentive pay (wage)

  • 1incentive pay — additional pay, a higher wage, or a bonus paid to promote the productivity of an employee. Also called incentive wage. [1955 60] * * * incentive pay or incentive bonus, a payment or bonus to induce a worker, employee, or farmer to increase or… …

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  • 2incentive pay — additional pay, a higher wage, or a bonus paid to promote the productivity of an employee. Also called incentive wage. [1955 60] * * * …

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  • 3incentive wage — UK US noun (also incentive pay) ► HR extra money paid to an employee as a reward for good work or to encourage good work in the future: »An aircraft manufacturer proposed a company wide incentive wage payment which provided for an increase of 5%… …

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  • 4Incentive — For the video game developer and publisher, see Incentive Software. For the independent record label, see Incentive Records. In economics and sociology, an incentive is any factor (financial or non financial) that enables or motivates a… …

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  • 5Wage slavery — is a term first coined by the Lowell Mill Girls in 1836, [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=YXT kSv1btIC pg=PA87 lpg=PA87 dq=lowell+%22wage+slavery%22 source=web ots=WsT3bkI 0G sig=w7N0JGBskFiUHReS 00amVMNaPY hl=en Artisans Into Workers: Labor… …

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  • 6pay — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ hourly, monthly, weekly ▪ full, half (both esp. BrE) ▪ He has taken leave on half pay. ▪ …

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  • 7Executive pay — is financial compensation received by an officer of a firm, often as a mixture of salary, bonuses, shares of and/or call options on the company stock, etc. Over the past three decades, executive pay has risen dramatically beyond the rising levels …

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  • 8Maximum wage — A maximum wage, also often called a wage ceiling, is a legal limit on how much income an individual can earn.[1] This is a related economic concept that is complementary to the minimum wage used currently by some states to enforce minimum… …

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  • 9Reservation wage — In labor economics, the reservation wage is the lowest wage rate at which a worker would be willing to accept a particular type of job. A job offer involving the same type of work and the same working conditions, but at a lower wage rate, would… …

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  • 10basic wage rate — The wage rate paid to an operator for a specified time period worked; it excludes any payments for incentive bonus, shift premium, overtime, working conditions, and other premium payments that, when added to the basic wage rate, make up the final …

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