wage scale

基本解释

The team owners now want an extra $800m up front and a fixed wage scale for first-year players.
球隊老板現在要求聯盟再額外支付8000萬美元的預付款給他們，同時要求限制第一年的新秀工資。
Workers at the bottom of the wage scale have seen their incomes fall relative to those at the top.
那些低收入的工人已經看到，相對於那些高收入者他們的工資是在下降。
To start with the assumption that there should be a unified labor market with no barriers to exit or entry and with essentially one wage scale is not wrong; what would be wrong is to stop there.
先假設一個沒有進出障礙和無工資等級錯誤的標準市場，也沒有別的其它情況。

There is no evidence that mid- to large-sized companies maintain a different wage scale for foreign-born and native-born employees.
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This allows the league its wage scale, which is huge for them, but provides some upsides for players at reasonable thresholds in return.
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Given the stakes at hand in a world with no rookie wage scale, you would think that teams would become more judicious over time.
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a schedule of wages paid to workers for various jobs in an industry, company, etc