wage earner

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

wage earner
    n 1: someone who earn wages in return for their labor [syn:
         {earner}, {wage earner}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "wage earner":
      blue-collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer,
      common laborer, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky,
      free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand, industrial worker,
      jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrant, moiler,
      navvy, office temporary, proletarian, roustabout, salaried worker,
      self-employed person, servant, stiff, temporary, toiler,
      wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl,
      workingman, workingwoman, workman