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.
球队老板现在要求联盟再额外支付8000万美元的预付款给他们，同时要求限制第一年的新秀工资。
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经看到，相对于那些高收入者他们的工资是在下降。
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.
先假设一个没有进出障碍和无工资等级错误的标准市场，也没有别的其它情况。

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