Definition of wage earner
: a person who works for wages or salary
wage earner
noun
Updated on: 1 Dec 2017
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Examples of wage earner in a Sentence
Most wage earners were not affected by the income tax increase.
Recent Examples of wage earner from the Web
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The ones who benefit from the mortgage-interest deduction (MID) are the upper-wage earners.
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But one group could be hit especially hard: upper-middle-income wage earners who can deduct big state and local taxes and mortgage interest.
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That benefit rightfully goes to all of us equally, which especially benefits the low-wage earners, according to the latest tax plan.
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The highest 2-percent of male wage earners in Alabama make $330,000 a year.
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The Senate has repeatedly found that our reserves, if prudently managed, will earn enough investment income to fund government and ultimately close the fiscal gap without taxing Alaska's wage earners.
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Without life insurance, one in four households would have immediate difficulty paying their bills if their primary wage earner died, according to the Life Insurance Barometer Study conducted by Life Happens in 2017.
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Alabama’s average of $124,000 for the top 2 percent of female wage earners is the 10th lowest in the country.
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Research from Kevin Hassett, formerly of AEI and now chairman of the CEA, shows about 70 percent of the benefits of business tax cuts going to wage earners.
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First Known Use of wage earner
1861
WAGE EARNER Defined for English Language Learners
wage earner
noun
Definition of wage earner for English Language Learners
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: someone who works for wages or a salary
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