The historical course of wages and salaries in an economy is one of the most important phenomena in measuring the relevant economy's macroeconomic performance. An economy that does not sustainably raise real wages and salaries by increasing employment in the long run cannot be considered successful. In this study, The trajectory of wages and salaries in the Turkish economy from 1970 to 2021 is examined through various indicators. On the one hand, the proportion of workers in employment and their share of GDP are examined in the first part of the study. On the other, labor productivity and the evolution of real wages are thoroughly examined in the second part. The final part discusses the internal convergence dynamics of labor incomes. The following are the study's key findings: While Turkey's proletarianization process has recently accelerated, labor productivity has also increased. However, workers' and civil servants' real incomes have not increased permanently. In the last fifty years, the country's political climate and level of democratization, economic crises, devaluations, and inflationary environment have been determined to be leading parameters that influence the real incomes and wage cycles of workers in the economy. This study also seeks to reveal the contexts in which various distinctive realities of the country can affect wages and salaries. According to the findings of the study, processes in which long-term social conflicts are powerful and the political climate is relatively democratic and favorable to workers contribute to the improvement of labor purchasing power and a more equitable distribution of income. On the contrary, it has been shown that authoritarian tendencies, currency crises and high inflation processes impoverish the workforce, cause unequal income distribution and increase economic-social polarization. Economic policies should be established and implemented in such a way as to establish exchange rate and price stability and reduce unemployment, in order to raise the share of workers in the gross domestic product in the long and short term. In the political phase, there is a need for democratization, which entails avoiding the exertion of state force to suppress worker's struggles for rights, increasing the rate of unionization, and increasing the power of labor demands to influence political processes.