How to Use wage earner in a Sentence

wage earner

noun
  • Most wage earners were not affected by the income tax increase.
  • This is supposed to help wage earners, but pay rates haven’t ticked up.
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
  • And so this is a tax on wage earners, and a windfall for investors.
    — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Mere wage earners and those at the bottom economic rungs will not.
    — David M. Smick, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2018
  • At the same time, average wage earners were forced out of the new car market.
    — Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • For the homeless, hourly wage earners and some others, this is not an option.
    — Candida Moss, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Making $300k a year puts you in the top 3% of wage earners.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • Since the Reagan era, income gains have indeed been skewed to high-wage earners.
    — Robert Cherry, National Review, 8 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most wage earners are fortunate to make $1 million over their careers.
    — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The vast majority of high wage earners with mortgages and state taxes are not getting a tax cut.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • One quirk will apply starting in 2026 to reduce the tax break for very high wage earners.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Jabeen was the only wage earner for his household — a wife, four children and his elderly father.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • For instance, the policy would double the pay of a low-wage earner making $13 an hour.
    — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Next year, a minimum-wage earner in Arkansas will make up to $400 a week.
    — Hunter Field, Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Without wage earners, or when workers’ time and labor are cheapened for easy sale, who will be the market for the products of these industries?
    — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • The states where minimum wages are highest are the same states where, despite higher costs, the lowest wage earners are within reach of a living wage.
    — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Not considering the impact the claiming age of the higher wage earner has on the lower-earning survivor spouse.
    — Robert Powell, USA TODAY, 18 June 2020
  • 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
  • But the past few years of layoffs, hiring slowdowns, and dwindling worker protections have left a subset of wage earners inclined to keep their cards close.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025

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