A family wage is a wage that is sufficient to raise a family. This contrasts with a living wage, which is generally taken to mean a wage sufficient for a single individual to live on, but not necessarily sufficient to also support a family.
Charles Krauthammer has said there should be a two-tiered system where breadwinners have a higher minimum wage. [1]
A family wage – a basic wage, with a supplement by family size, was adopted by the dominant trade union in the British Mandate of Palestine (now the state of Israel), Histadrut, in 1923, and remained policy for a decade, but implementation was limited. [2]
In the United Kingdom, a family wage was a demand of male labour unionists at the turn of the 19th century. [3]
