"earner of" is an acceptable English phrase when referring to someone who has achieved a particular award, honor, or distinction
For example: "John Smith is the proud earner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics."
He's building a nice little free earner of his own.
Significant growth in tourism since the 1970s has made it a major earner of foreign exchange.
The price of oil, Russia's main earner of foreign exchange, has tumbled.
Tourism has replaced sugar as the country's principal earner of foreign currency.
American Sniper was only the 13th-highest earner of 2014 worldwide.
Foreign tourists number more than 300,000 a year, and the tourist industry is an important earner of foreign exchange.
Tourism is Kenya's second-largest earner of foreign exchange, after tea, bringing in about $320 million last year.
But public interest in the couple's private lives still made the film a top earner of 1963.
Education, through the foreign students who come to study in Australia, is already the country's third-biggest earner of foreign exchange.
And tourism which is this green, gorgeous land's biggest earner of all has just become that much harder to sell, not least to hard-drinking Europeans.
The price of oil which, with natural gas, is Russia's main earner of foreign currency—is down by more than 40% this year.
