Sentence examples for primary earner from inspiring English sources

In the Budget, the primary earner income test has been brought down from $150,000 to $100,000.

Almost one in eight families – 12 per cent – report that the primary earner has taken on a second job.

Then he admitted that his attitude toward my spending habits would be a lot less liberal if he were the primary earner.

Women are vital breadwinners in North Korea, often becoming the primary earner in families which rely on selling goods on the black market for their income.

As her family's primary earner, she felt forced to comply and was escorted from her workplace of many years by a security guard.

Because she is the family's primary earner, she took out $900,000 in life insurance on herself and $600,000 on her husband, Matthew, 44, a construction worker.

While the number of female breadwinners is constantly increasing, in the majority of families, men are still the primary earners.

Finally, we present microsimulations of tax reform for 15 European countries suggesting that a reduction of tax rates on secondary earners relative to primary earners is associated with strong welfare gains in all countries.

A growing number of women are the primary earners for their households, according to surveys by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and studies by research organizations like the Families and Work Institute.

Based on the considerations cited above, my guess is that the effect of working in the present on future Social Security and Medicare benefits was once somewhat positive (primary earners) or zero (secondary earners), and for primary earners has become less positive (or even negative) over time.

Five of the six fastest-growing job categories pay wages below the median, he says, and are increasingly home to skilled workers and primary earners, as opposed to teenagers or the unskilled.