wage earners
People with paychecks
Wage earners are people who work for wages—typically hourly or weekly pay rather than salaries or business profits.
The term often carries class connotations, distinguishing working-class laborers from salaried professionals or the self-employed: Tax policy should benefit wage earners, not just investors.
A household's wage earner is whoever brings in income.
- working classManual laborers collectively
- laborersWorkers doing physical tasks
- workersPeople doing jobs
- employeesPaid staff members
- salaryFixed periodic employment payment
income · livelihood · proletariat · blue-collar workers · hard day's work · breadwinners · paycheck · paycheck to paycheck · working poor · trade unionism · remuneration · collective bargaining · labor unions · gig economy · job · payday · overtime · boss
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- labor fictionfactory workers, labor strikes, labor movement, working class, labor
- workforceworkers, employee, employees, labor force, employer
- Wealth Classespoor, rich, wealthy, affluent, millionaires
- underclasspoor, pauper, peasant, homeless, serf
wage earnersjobless
Lacking paid employment
out of work · job seekers · non-working · idle · retirees
wage earnersrentiers
Those living off investments
investors · coupon clippers · landlords · heirs · pensioners
wage earnerscapitalists
Owners of productive wealth
employers · business owners · proprietors · industrialists · entrepreneurs
earn, wage, earnest, earned, wages, earnings, wager, earning, earns