How about our back pay?

I'll collect our wages and ... we'll have a big night in town and drift north in the morning.

The other places, there wasn't much gold to pay us a good day's wages.

Watch now, they'll cut us again and still again, until they have this, as empty as their promises.

we're going to go on strikes unless you increase our wages or unless you give us better working conditions .

Their men came to the colliery willing to work for any wage, so our wages must come down.

And, collectively, that delusion boosts our savings, and thus our capital stock, which on turn boosts all of our wages and salaries as well.