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What are the factors affecting fair wages?
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Fair Wages—A fair wage is something more than the minimum wages. Fair wage is a mean between the living wage and the minimum wage. While the lower limit of the fair wage must obviously be the minimum wage, the upper limit is the capacity of the industry to pay fair wage compares reasonably with the average payment of similar task in other trades or occupations requiring the same amount of ability. Fair wage depends on the present economic position as well as on its future prospects. Thus the fair wages depends upon the following factors :
(1) Minimum Wages
(2) Capacity of the industry to pay
(3) Prevailing rates of wages in the same or similar occupations in the same or neighbouring localities
(4) Productivity of labour
(5) Level of national income and its distribution.
(6) The place of the industry in the economy of the country.