Wage Index

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Wage Index

In the United States, a table one uses to calculate how much to pay a retired person in Social Security benefits. Factors affecting a wage index include the number of years a person worked and his/her average wage or salary during his/her working life.

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He cited potential problems in the uniformity of taxes, labor laws and wages, since regions in the federal system would have different wage indices due to their different working conditions and respective peculiarities.

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In 1980 the correlation between the log wage index of workers with less than nine years of schooling and that of college graduates was only 0.72.(22) To illustrate how the same state may offer relatively different opportunities to different types of workers, consider the log wage indices for New York and California.