Also known as: wages · waged · salary · pay · compensation
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Compensation for services paid on an hourly basis, as distinguished from a salary paid at regular intervals on a yearly basis.
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Wyatt Wilson contracted to buy land from Willowbrook Capital. Before closing a fire destroyed the buildings. Wyatt still owed the full price because equitable conversion placed the risk of loss on him at contract formation, forcing him to continue paying his workers their hourly wages from other funds.
Wayne Walker earned hourly wages at Wolverine Steel. Congress exercised its power under Article I Section 8 to lay and collect taxes on those wages to pay the national debt and provide for the general welfare, requiring Wayne to remit a portion of each paycheck.
Wilma Wright suffered an injury at work and received an offer from her employer to pay her medical expenses. At trial the employer could not introduce that offer to disprove liability for her lost wages because Federal Rule of Evidence 409 bars such evidence to prove liability.
Wallace Webb, a sitting judge, attempted to take on paid legal work for a client outside his judicial duties. The conduct violated the prohibition on practicing law, so he could not lawfully receive wages for those services even though he performed them.
Wesley Wong represented an indigent client in pending litigation. He paid the client's court costs and litigation expenses from his own funds without seeking repayment from the client's hourly wages. The payment was proper because the client qualified as indigent, allowing the lawyer to cover those expenses directly.
Winona Walsh leased property from Westmont Healthcare. She failed to pay the rent reserved in the lease on the due date. The breach of her obligation to pay rent exposed her to eviction even though the rent came from her hourly wages.
Wages are paid on an hourly basis and are generally subject to overtime requirements, whereas salaries are paid at regular intervals on a yearly basis and are often exempt from those requirements.
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