Employee

Usage examples of earner.

Skinner had picked up more than a few earners of that type herself as a Dusable officer of the law.

When the income tax first arrived, only one-half of 1 percent of American income earners actually paid any income tax.

In 2003, the last year for which figures are available, the top 52 percent of all income earners paid virtually 100 percent of all personal income taxes collected by the Internal Revenue Service.

We are just a few years away from the point where the majority of American wage earners will have no federal income tax liability at all.

In the beginning, the tax code skimmed only a small percentage off the incomes of the very top earners -- taxpayers rich enough that they had little incentive to avoid taxes.

Having already essentially relieved the bottom 50 percent of income earners from any income tax liability at all, these politicians now want to work on payroll taxes.

Northern wage earners who rallied to the Union cause became allied with their employers.

Democracy was forcing out the ancient autocracy of the Hapsburgs, education and culture were opening up to the masses so that by the time Hitler came to Vienna in 1909 there was opportunity for a penniless young man either to get a higher education or to earn a fairly decent living and, as one of a million wage earners, to live under the civilizing spell which the capital cast over its inhabitants.

It was, in fact, to be the last year that men like Derek would believe such a thing, because within a very short time virtually every coalmine in Britain would be closed, the men would be out of work and the women would become the principal earners in the home.

Based on a wage of dollars earned per hours spent writing, novels are probably much better earners than short stories.

Somehow, as an earner and breadwinner, doing his own work in the world, he was more like an equal with her.

More than 4 percent of the online daters claimed to earn more than $200,000 a year, whereas fewer than 1 percent of typical Internet users actually earn that much, suggesting that three of the four big earners were exaggerating.

Other chains, such as the rapidly expanding Burger King, which was purchased by baking-goods giant Pillsbury, were better earners for their parent companies.

And it had quietly prospered for a time, hidden in the folds of the Simi Valley a couple of miles from the highway that speeded its wage earners to Los Angeles every morning and speeded them home again every night.

Try dividing the Federal Budget by the number of wage earners not on the public payroll, then take a stab at where you fit in.