When we speak of "wages" in Political Economy we are concerned with the wages earned by the common people in a sovereignty. It is our thesis that the economic performance of a sovereignty is measured by the real wages offered to those who are blessed only with the education that is provided by the social structure of the sovereignty. We speak of the average hourly fee awarded to those who perform rudimentary labor . The hourly wage paid to rudimentary labor is a statistic that is not altered by, the "shape" of the economy, where "shape" is intended to describe whether the economy is a services, manufacturing, agricultural, technological, or oil supplying economy. Simply stated, "wage" statistics that can be employed to measure overall economic performance must be the wages paid to the vast majority of the citizenry who are employed in what is commonly referred to as the "support" area or "secondary" area of the economy. This area may or may not employ vast majority of the people in the economy but the wage paid to all other areas in the economy is based on the wage awarded to these people who perform the absolutely essential labor within the sovereignty. We will see that electricians and plumbers are tradesmen and that they will, by virtue of their acquired skills, earn more than rudimentary wages. Indeed, the reason that people labor to acquire skills is partially based on the remuneration they foresee as a reward to acquiring the skill. Those who must assimilate much larger stores of knowledge as well as skill will earn still more, e.g. physicians, scientists, academicians.