'wage-earning' definitions:

Working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor" [syn: wage-earning, working- class]

Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw [syn: propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue- collar]