Sentence examples for paltry wages from inspiring English sources
'paltry wages' is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to refer to wages that are too low or inadequate. For example, "The workers were protesting their paltry wages and demanding a pay raise."
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.
Columnists decried the hypocrisy of the fashion industry celebrating fast food; others ran quotes from restaurant workers comparing their paltry wages to the prices of the collection.
For the latter, bonuses are laid out as tangible yet difficult to attain prizes to boost your paltry wage.
Routinely they are required to scrub floors, toilets, walls, vacuum, babysit and run errands with own car, for that 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.
The quarterly national accounts data showed Britons turned to debt to support spending in the face of last year's surging inflation, which outstripped paltry wage growth.
Sanitation workers in Memphis most of whom were African American and received a paltry wage of about $1.00 per hour conducted a strike for better wages and working conditions in 1966 but failed to gain sufficient community support.
