wages bill
noun[C]
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The mines were operated by a foreign owned consortium that paid its approximately 3,000 expatriate workers handsomely - their salaries accounted for two-thirds of the country's entirewagesbill.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Prices have hit rock-bottom, and the monthlywagesbillcan no longer be covered from beef production.
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I have, therefore, carefully gone into the question to see whether the additional cost is justified by thewagesbill.
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That contract runs to hundreds of thousands of pounds, and the weeklywagesbillof the contractor amounts to something like £3,000.
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He said that it amounts to 0·05 per cent. of thewagesbill.
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Thewagesbillof that particular company was £365,000 a week.
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He suggested that the basis of their contribution should be a half-penny in the pound of thewagesbill.
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The authorities have estimated that their salary andwagesbillwill be £130·2 million in 1974–75 and £169·2 million in 1975–76.
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However, for the last five years for which accounts are available the salaries andwagesbillfor each board are set out in the tables.
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He was not talking about thewagesbillof the industry but about average earnings.
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