And with a record fraction of the population working, total wage and salary income rose to more than $4 trillion in 1998.
It accounted for 10% of community's retail space and 6% of the total wages.
The total wages of its covered employment is $40 billion.
Economists measure labour in terms of hours worked, total wages, or efficiency.
Last came the vacation clause, which brought the total wage and benefit increase to 5 percent.
First take your total wages from all jobs that you had in the last tax year, before any tax and National Insurance was taken off.
Both plans were started in the mid-1940's and have produced, over the years, about 30 percent of each worker's total wages, which now average $30,000.
In that time, he employed 26 staff and paid them total wages of almost £2.3 million.
Premiums are calculated as a certain percentage of each worker's total wage.
For someone making $7 an hour, the contribution for the family policy is 11 percent of the worker's total wages.