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  • You find out what minimum wage is, and I'll pay two bucks more per hour.†  (source)
  • I know it paid well above the minimum wage.†  (source)
  • The moviemakers pay local extras the minimum wage, and Savannah doesn't get publicity after all, because the audiences usually haven't the vaguest idea where the movies have been shot.†  (source)
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  • Immigrants like herself, she says, work hard at jobs no American wants to do, at least not for minimum wage with no health benefits or paid vacation time.†  (source)
  • Instead of hiring a large human security force-which impacts the social environment-you know, lots of minimum-wage earners standing around carrying machine guns-Mr. Lee prefers to use nonhuman systems.†  (source)
  • I can give you twenty-five hours a week at the minimum wage.†  (source)
  • Around here, there are a lot of minimum-wage-type jobs that don't pay much more than daycare costs, so why bother?†  (source)
  • Getting sent out meant the minimum wage—minus Uncle Sam's share—for as many hours as you were needed.†  (source)
  • There's $213 left in Molly's savings account from the minimum-wage job she had last summer scooping ice cream in Bar Harbor.†  (source)
  • You're an intelligent college graduate, but you're content to work for minimum wage.†  (source)
  • Instead, due to choices she'd made, as well as a few circumstances beyond her control, she'd always had low-level, minimum-wage, benefits-only-if-you're-really-lucky kinds of jobs: waitress, retail, telemarketer, temp.†  (source)
  • And the foot soldiers earned just 53.30 an hour, less than the minimum wage.†  (source)
  • In fact, most of J. T.'s foot soldiers also held minimum-wage jobs in the legitimate sector to supplement their skimpy illicit earnings.†  (source)
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