living wage

1. 1.

   a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably

   Broaderwage

Questions about living wage

What does living wage mean?

living wage means "a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably".

Is living wage a common word?

living wage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.