wage-earning

Adjective wage-earning has 2 senses

• wage-earning(s = adj.all) working-class - working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"
• wage-earning(s = adj.all) blue-collar, propertyless, working-class - of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"