wages vs consequence

wages and consequence both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wages	Yes	No	No	No
consequence	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, consequence is a hypernym of wages; that is, consequence is a word with a broader meaning than wages:

wages: a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing
consequence: the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual

Other hypernyms of wages include aftermath.

wages (noun)	consequence (noun)
a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing	having important effects or influence
	the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual
	a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon