"paltry wage" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means a wage or salary that is small or insignificant. Example: Despite working long hours, the employees were barely making ends meet with their paltry wage.
For the latter, bonuses are laid out as tangible yet difficult to attain prizes to boost your paltry wage.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans barely increased their spending at retail businesses in April and May, constrained by weak job creation and paltry wage increases, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.
She says that the spread of insecure, short-term contracts and part-time work, together with benefits cuts and paltry wage growth, have meant that many people in work are struggling to make ends meet.
"High unemployment, weak job growth and paltry wage increases are a recipe for sluggish consumer spending growth and a tepid recovery," Ms. Yellen told a real estate group in Phoenix.
May the paltry wage they're able to swindle from New York's guilt-ridden bourgeoisie keep them adequately soused until the morrow!" Asked if he would care to rephrase any of that, Mr. Randazzo added: "We don't have any deal with the city's homeless to sell our paper, which is distributed free throughout New York (as well as Chicago, Boulder, Madison, and Milwaukee).
But that, too, has been disappointing in recent months, constrained by weak job creation and paltry wage increases.
He then comes home, spends his paltry wages on food, and rests for the remainder of the day.
Emboldened by its success (and further motivated by his paltry wages as a journalist), he began writing "Dead Cert".
Some said Segen deployed them as conscript labourers, describing "terrible living conditions and forced labour at paltry wages".
And there is certainly no prohibition against the mind-numbing and often humiliating menial work that poor people do in exchange for paltry wages from hugely rich companies.
Leaderless and increasingly infuriated because of their paltry wages, the armies brutally crashed through the city, then a papal stronghold, leaving destruction and devastation in their wake.
