wage earner
Someone with income
A wage earner is someone who works for pay, especially hourly or weekly wages rather than a salary.
The term often distinguishes working-class employment from salaried professional positions.
In a household context, the wage earner is whoever brings in income: She was the family's primary wage earner.
Hired organizational member
- workerPerson who toils
- jobholderPerson with employment
- breadwinnerPrimary household earner
- staffOrganization's workers collectively
hireling · operative · salaried · full-time · part-time · contractor · freelancer · temp
Fixed periodic employment payment
- compensationPayment for services rendered
- remunerationPayment for work done
- paycheckCompensation for labor
- stipendFixed regular payment
hourly · commission · bonus · overtime · take-home · gross · net · payroll
employee
Hired organizational member
- workerPerson who toils
- jobholderPerson with employment
- breadwinnerPrimary household earner
staff · hireling · operative · salaried · full-time · part-time · contractor · freelancer · temp · seasonal
salary
Fixed periodic employment payment
- compensationPayment for services rendered
- remunerationPayment for work done
- paycheckCompensation for labor
stipend · hourly · commission · bonus · overtime · take-home · gross · net · payroll · payday
breadwinner
Primary household earner
- providerOne who furnishes things
- supporterOne who backs another
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
household · dependents · family · bills · expenses · rent · mortgage · groceries · utilities · making ends meet
job
Paid position of employment
- professionTrained occupational field
- vocationDedicated career path
- tradeExchange of commodities
career · craft · position · role · industry · sector · employment · work · labor · nine-to-five
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- wagessalary, pay, paycheck, income, hourly pay
- breadwinnersprovider, sole provider, breadwinners
- hard workersant, ants, bee, bees, beaver
- class struggleclass conflict, class warfare, class divide, class struggle, class consciousness
- Everymanaverage Joe, everyman, common man, regular Joe, regular guy
wage earnerrentier
Lives on investment income
heir · investor · heiress · coupon clipper · landlord
wage earnerindependently wealthy
Having unearned sufficient means
aristocrat · plutocrat · man of means · woman of means · bourgeoisie
wage earnerdependent
Requiring outside support
homemaker · stay-at-home parent · kept man · kept woman · housewife
earn, wage, earned, wages, earnings, wager, earning, earns, earner