wages
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 331 U.S. 704 - United States v. Silk · 1947Most cited · 1,477 citing opinions
all remuneration for the employment that is covered by the Act, cash or otherwise.
How the Supreme Court has restated “wages”
Each Supreme Court definition of “wages,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “wages”
Court decisions citing the 5 opinions that defined “wages” — 3,201 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 5 definitions, chronological · 1942–2019
- ORIGINAL
in addition to the items specified, we must deduce from other provisions of the act in the light of its legislative purpose.
all remuneration for employment, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash; .
the money rate at which the service rendered is recompensed under the contract of hiring in force at the time of the injury, including the reasonable value of board, rent, housing, lodging, or similar advantage received from the employer, and gratuities received in the course of employment from others than the employer.
all remuneration" for "any service, of whatever nature, performed .