wage earner
a person who works for wages, especially a laborer.
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How to use wage earner in a sentence
His ideas took hold, requiring ever more managers to watch the workers and the number of supervisors grew at more than double the rate of wage earners.
There Is a Better Way to Use Power at Work. This Forgotten Business Guru Has the Secrets | Matthew Barzun | June 15, 2021 | TimeTo grasp how low the personal tax burden of the country’s richest Americans is compared with typical wage earners, you also need to count other forms of federal taxes.
You May Be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire | by Paul Kiel, Jeff Ernsthausen and Jesse Eisinger | June 8, 2021 | ProPublicaCreature’s Cullen-Shute wanted to take SPL following the birth of his son in 2015, but being the higher wage earner meant it wasn’t viable.
The census indicates that Lawrence is the employer and Willie is a wage earner on his father’s farm.
Tim Scott often talks about his grandfather and cotton. There’s more to that tale. | Glenn Kessler | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostWhile restaurant wine sales took a hit that will resonate for years, sales overall benefited from the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on lower-income wage earners.
Wine sales will keep rising after the pandemic, a new report predicts — but maybe not for long | Dave McIntyre | January 15, 2021 | Washington Post
More than 36 percent have only one wage earner, and nearly 80 percent have no wage earners at all.
Italy Has Europe’s Highest Percentage of Children in Poverty, Says UNICEF | Barbie Latza Nadeau | March 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is followed by forty-four pages of argument and illustration relating exclusively to the able-bodied wage-earner.
English Poor Law Policy | Sidney WebbThe handsome sister is the younger; she never, when she was a wage-earner, went through the streets alone.
The Leaven in a Great City | Lillian William BettsThe independent wage-earner found his hope of political recognition in allegiance to the political machines.
The Leaven in a Great City | Lillian William BettsMention the trouble if the man of the house is sick and out of work, and there is no other wage earner.
The Complete Club Book for Women | Caroline French BentonWhere before he had been a subaltern not always even a wage-earner—now all in a moment he had been transformed into a high chief.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow Paine
British Dictionary definitions for wage earner
a person who works for wages, esp as distinguished from one paid a salary
the person who earns money to support a household by working
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