pieceworker
Paid by output
A pieceworker is someone paid by the unit produced rather than by the hour—a garment worker paid per shirt sewn, a fruit picker paid per basket filled.
The system incentivizes speed over time spent: Pieceworkers often earn less than minimum wage when production slows.
Industrial production facility
- assemblyConstructing from components
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
- productionMaking or generating something
- seamstressOne who stitches garments
tailor · machinist · operator · outworker · homeworker · sweatshop · contractor · subcontractor
Money gained from work
- compensationPayment for services rendered
- commissionPayment for services rendered
- bonusReward beyond expectation
- incentiveReward encouraging action
productivity · quota · tally · count · ticket · docket · payment · wages
factory
Industrial production facility
- assemblyConstructing from components
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
- productionMaking or generating something
seamstress · tailor · machinist · operator · outworker · homeworker · sweatshop · contractor · subcontractor · employee
earnings
Money gained from work
- compensationPayment for services rendered
- commissionPayment for services rendered
- bonusReward beyond expectation
incentive · productivity · quota · tally · count · ticket · docket · payment · wages · remuneration
target
Object of pursuit
minimum · throughput · batch · volume · count · tally · standard · benchmark · requirement · allocation
sewing
Craft with needle and thread
thread · needle · pattern · cutting · hemming · seam · buttonhole · zipper · lining · alterations
- casual workersday laborer, temp, freelancer, hired hand, fill-in