Profit-maximizing firms will hire additional units of a resource up to the point at which the marginal revenue product (MRP) of the resource equals its price.  With multiple inputs, firms will expand their use of each until the marginal product divided by the price (MP/P) is equal across all inputs. What is the link between marginal revenue product and wages?

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