Five hundred francs is only worth about 60 cents at the new exchange rate—but that is nearly half a day’s wage for the average person here.

按新汇率，500法郎大约只值60美分，但对这儿的普通人来说已经是近半天的工资了。

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For homebuyers, the best measure of the real rate is the gap between the average mortgage rate and annual wage growth.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

If offshoring were to continue growing at the same rate over the next ten years, the average wage paid in the services sector would fall by 2% as a direct consequence.

ECONOMIST: New evidence shows that the gains outweigh the losses