How to Use wage earner in a Sentence

wage earner

noun

• Most wage earners were not affected by the income tax increase.
• And so this is a tax on wage earners, and a windfall for investors.
  — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 8 Dec. 2017
• This is supposed to help wage earners, but pay rates haven’t ticked up.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
• But middle wage earners are starting to feel the squeeze.
  — Wired, 31 Oct. 2019
• Among the bottom 25% of wage earners, just 14% have access.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, Axios, 23 July 2024
• Trump said that the net worth of the bottom half of wage earners has increased by 47%, three times faster than the increase for the richest 1%.
  — Nihal Krishan, Washington Examiner, 4 Feb. 2020
• For the homeless, hourly wage earners and some others, this is not an option.
  — Candida Moss, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2020
• For parents, the high cost of care sometimes means one of them must stay home, taking a wage earner out of the workforce.
  — Courtney Crowder, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2019
• Rents in the city have risen 42% over the past seven years, fueled by the growth in high wage earners such as the many white collar workers at Amazon.com.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 17 June 2018
• Since the Reagan era, income gains have indeed been skewed to high-wage earners.
  — Robert Cherry, National Review, 8 Jan. 2018
• Mere wage earners and those at the bottom economic rungs will not.
  — David M. Smick, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2018
• For those paid at the median — with half of wage earners making less and half making more — pay rose by 53%.
  — Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• For instance, the policy would double the pay of a low-wage earner making $13 an hour.
  — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 23 Apr. 2020
• Palmer is happy to see the lowest wage earners get an increase due to the city’s minimum wage laws.
  — Natasha Chen, CNN, 19 July 2024
• Next year, a minimum-wage earner in Arkansas will make up to $400 a week.
  — Hunter Field, Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 2019
• Some congressional Democrats want all wage earners to have 14 days of sick pay to meet the quarantine time frame.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• This is lower than 90% of all wage earners and below the minimum wage in many major cities.
  — Lawrence Mishel For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 24 July 2019
• Imber, who is an hourly wage earner on the Ducks’ payroll during hockey season, is self-employed the rest of the year.
  — Kim Christensen, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2020
• Here are ten Indiana cities willing to pay high wage earners thousands of dollars to make the Hoosier state their new home.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
• For a high wage earner, the actual tax savings could add up to a sizable chunk of a monthly car payment.
  — Paul A. Eisenstein, NBC News, 21 Jan. 2018
• The same program would provide a middle-class family with one wage earner much less, about $3,100 a month.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
• Studies show that 40% of wage earners feel isolated at work.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• Many of these vendors are daily wage earners and a lockdown in the country could greatly affect them.
  — Rabson Kondowe, Quartz Africa, 17 Apr. 2020
• The vast majority of high wage earners with mortgages and state taxes are not getting a tax cut.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2017
• Furthermore, the financial impact of the food produced on the small plots is equivalent to adding one wage earner to the household.
  — Tim Hanstad, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2013
• How many of these wage earners would have covered their Social Security nut by, say, the end of Thursday, the first working day of 2020?
  — From Wire Reports, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2020
• Abba looks on with shame, aghast at such weakness of will, and, to make things worse, Haider is unemployed; Mumtaz, who does bridal makeup, is the wage earner.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• Jabeen was the only wage earner for his household — a wife, four children and his elderly father.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• The median price of a Maui home is $1.2 million, putting a single-family home out of reach for the typical wage earner.
  — Audrey McAvoy and Claire Rush, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
• Last month, while the overall consumer price index rose 3%, the index for urban wage earners increased 2.9%.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024