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