The minimum wage is another way to help those who can only find jobs with entry-level wages by incentivize and reward work.

The one-two of raising entry-level wages and requiring the welfare recipient to go to work was a combo of political genius, everybody said.

It's true that I chose a line of work - newspapers - that is notorious for low entry-level wages, but the broader data bear me out.

How to move four million low-skilled women, many of them borderline disabled, into a labor market where entry-level wages have been declining for two decades?

These workers are set to earn a higher entry-level basic wage of between S$1,000 and S$1,200.

Although they are the best-paid, they also have the most to lose if they are laid off and have to start over at entry-level wages.

But companies that offer these jobs still find themselves bidding up their entry-level wage, to get enough workers.

"At entry-level wages?"

Last year, Ms. Freniere bumped entry-level wages up to $7.15 an hour from $6.45, to give her a $1 cushion above minimum wage.

Such Ph.D. candidates are employed by the university or faculty on full-time, four-year contracts with regular, entry-level wages and employee benefits.