wages; labor wages
Refers specifically to wages earned through physical or manual labor. More formal and less common than 賃金 (ちんぎん) in everyday speech.
工場の労銀は時間給で支払われる。
Factory wages are paid by the hour.
彼は労
He demanded a raise in labor wages.
Compound of 労 (ろう, 'labor') and 銀 (ぎん, 'silver' or 'money'), literally 'labor money'. The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term likely emerged in the context of industrial labor.