Synonyms of wage earner

wage earner

noun

as in wage slave

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wage slave
• wageworker
• workwoman
• gandy dancer
• workingwoman
• workingman
• workman
• laborer
• hack
• grub
• toiler
• jobber
• associate
• colleague
• coworker
• drudge
• subordinate
• navvy
• nine-to-fiver
• assistant
• cog
• employee
• temporary
• underling
• flunkey
• temp
• worker
• yes-man
• employe
• flunky
• flunkie
• retainer
• hireling
• jobholder
• hand

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• employer
• supervisor
• boss
• superior
• gaffer

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of wage earner

That tax cut was to be paid for by raising the cap for individuals earning more than $250,000 annually and requiring more Social Security taxes to be paid by those wage earners. —Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2024

While certain state Pass-Through Entity Tax regimes may allow pass-through owners to decrease or avoid AMT tax, W-2 wage earners will be unable to avoid AMT applicability. —Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024

Even in 2019, the city of Milwaukee was the only municipality in the county where a single average wage earner could afford the average house by themselves. —Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024

As the anthropologist Katherine Newman noted, welfare beneficiaries typically worked full time, but as mothers and caretakers, not wage earners. —Alex Park / Made By History, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024