board wages

常見例句

He works hard, but gets only board wages .
他工作辛苦，但所得報酬只是供膳食而已。
They worked hard, but got only board wages.
他們工作辛辛苦苦，但所得的報酬僅是膳宿而已。
In 1922, the railroad labor board announced that wages for railroad shop workers would be cut by seven cents – a considerable sum at the time.
在1922年，鐵路勞工董事會宣布，車間工人的工資將削減7美分——在當時是相當多的。

Yet despite the recent rise in wages across the board, and despite the massive rise in federal assistance, many poor single wage-earners have still not been able to lift their families out of poverty.
ECONOMIST: Out of sight, out of mind
His promise of a 20% across-the-board rise in public-sector wages may not sound a pinchpenny start, but it could prove one—if no more is added later: 20% is the government's forecast of this year's inflation, and many analysts expect it to be higher.
ECONOMIST: Venezuela