starvation wage
peanuts
wage slavery
slave wage
pittance payment
low-paid
scratch a living
paylessness
underearn
underpaid
if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
coffee and cakes
impecunity
benefits cliff
wage freeze
sucker bet
pittance
nickel-and-dime
half-pay
welfare trap
blue circle rate
Lazarus layer
uncompensated
unsalaried
nonearning
unearning
sweatshop
nonsalaried
busted valise
wage slave
underearner
underpay
slim pickings
make-work job
oofless
working poor
pennies on the dollar
weakness
off the clock
red cent
nonemploying
minimum wage
chicken feed
brokeness
underpromotion
impecuniousness
unemployment
pennilessness
underdistribution
tightfistedness
penuriousness
microbudget
strapped for money
chump change
don't spend it all in one place
primary poverty
cash-starved
in the bucket
strapped for cash
undercompensation
penny-wise
incomelessness
whip the cat
smell of an oily rag
low water
disoccupation
operating loss
microeconomy
dole bludger
dolehead
on a shoestring
run a red light
joe job
slap bet
giveback
nonprofiting
budget
worklessness
brokie
shoestring
penniless
shoe string
nonpayer
drab
joblessness
bond servant
pennies
small change
out-of-work
underpayment
wagelessness
disemploy
subsistence level
pocket change
trifle
welfare bum