Adjective: wage-earning
- Working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries
"wage-earning occupations include manual as well as industrial labour";
- working-class
- Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial labourers
"party of the wage-earning proletariat";
- propertyless, working-class, blue-collar
See also: blue-collar, low-class, lower-class