Sentence examples for for pitiful wages from inspiring English sources

If his claim of feeling no pain is true, zipping around the country doing performances is surely more fun that working all hours of the day on a construction site for pitiful wages, as he did before.

No, the sad part is the people selling popcorn or directing parking lot traffic for a pitiful wage who, like all the workers not tending to their iron-cocooned shops, should have the day (holy or not) to be with their families, or watch 10 Robert De Niro movies, or just enjoy the quiet.

Pitiful wages in exchange for equally pitiful 56K web portals.

We were paid pitiful wages; after rent and food there was precious little left over.

Pitiful wages and inadequate transportation forced the working-class migrants to live close to the mill sites in factory chawls.

He stayed for a while in the tin mines of Bolivia, outraged when he matched the price of tin on the world market against the working conditions and pitiful wages of Bolivian miners.

As few as one-tenth of the labour force have their own businesses; the rest work in state-owned firms earning pitiful wages.

Eighty per cent of the world's bestselling toys are manufactured in Chinese sweatshops by workers on pitiful wages, often working seven days a week.

Corruption, shoddy infrastructure and political instability discourage private investment, which Haiti desperately needs to bring down unemployment and raise its pitiful wages.

Even though their pitiful wages are often as little as $20 a month, these people are being paid sporadically, or not at all.

(Hint: It is your pitiful wages).