Examples of wage earner in a Sentence
Most wage earners were not affected by the income tax increase.
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The deduction isn’t limited to W-2 wage earners.
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
For Palestinians, such changes meant that a generation of youth became wage earners with independent sources of income for the first time.
—Literary Hub
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
The Social Security Administration (SSA) distributes benefits to more than 70 million people, including retirees, disabled workers and the families of deceased wage earners.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
The Social Security Administration bases its COLA each year on average annual increases in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) from July through September.
—Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 19 July 2025
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
For Palestinians, such changes meant that a generation of youth became wage earners with independent sources of income for the first time.
—Literary Hub
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
The Social Security Administration (SSA) distributes benefits to more than 70 million people, including retirees, disabled workers and the families of deceased wage earners.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
The Social Security Administration bases its COLA each year on average annual increases in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) from July through September.
—Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 19 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for wage earner
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“Wage earner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wage%20earner. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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