Incentive pay, often twice the base wage, is tied to how much a team exceeds average industry productivity.

The lump sum payments do not add to the base wage on which future raises would be calculated.

For 1989, the minimum weekly base wage for a player is $1,013.20.

Industry officials said the workers' base wage was $743 per week.

The base wage for Broadway musicians is $70,000 a year; with benefits included, their overall compensation comes to more than $90,000.

Following the 2007 National Agreement, the base starting wage was lowered to about $15 per hour.

Under Lincoln's system, line workers generally receive no base wage and are paid only for what they produce.

With her base wage of $8.40 an hour, that would exceed her weekly pay.

He was paid 60 times the base wage.

Nonetheless, some workers voiced disappointment that the increase in base wages did not average more than 4 percent a year.