Beams, say, getting wage increase (5)
I believe the answer is:
raise
'wage increase' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'beams say' is the wordplay.
'beams' becomes 'rays' (I've seen this before).
'say' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'rays' sounds like 'RAISE'.
'getting' is the link.
(Other definitions for raise that I've seen before include "Gather" , "What a poker player might do" , "Haul up" , "Uplift" , "Pick up" .)