получатель заработка; наёмный работник; рабочий; человек, живущий на одну зарплату(не имеющий никаких иных доходов; аналог русского "бюджетника", но может работать и в частной компании • No normal wage earners can afford a luxury condo selling for an astronomical $2,000 a square foot. • But the author of the book ‘Sick City: Disease, Race, Inequality and Urban Land’, adds, “I was also hoping we would get housing that was affordable for area wage earners, and was designed to integrate into surrounding neighbourhoods.” (vancouversun.com) • ... But as time passed and home prices spiralled more and more out of reach for average wage earners in defiance of simple notions of “supply and demand,” I felt betrayed. (thetyee.ca)ART Vancouver)
