Sentences with phrase «meager salary»

The cost can be especially burdensome for teachers who make meager salaries and live paycheck to paycheck.

Before they successfully organized in the 1950s and 1960s, teachers endured meager salaries, political favoritism, tyrannical principals and sex discrimination against a mostly female work force.

I volunteer weekly, give what I can of a meager salary to the poor, and work for groups that help the less fortunate.

She earned a meager salary, barely enough to support her family.

The amount of money he needs to make the land purchase isn't much by North American standards, although virtually unattainable on his meager salary.

Just about everyone I met was working some sort of angle for money in excess of the meager salaries they earned in their real jobs.

Although I make a meager salary, I'm still fortunate and privileged enough to be able to save 8 % every month.

And if the thought of not putting any money away for retirement does not aggravate some postdocs, having to live on a meager salary does.

On my meager salary, I learned that cheap, plain office clothes were the way to go.

Much is made of Eugene's burgeoning sexual self - awareness and his father's efforts to support his huge extended family on his meager salary.

The mother of two - confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoé - is forced to maintain a stable family life while making ends meet on her meager salary as a medieval history scholar.

Unfortunately, he can not afford to buy the machine on his meager salary.

You can do so even if you earn a meager salary, or even if you are a starving college student.

Money adviser (and author) Ramit Sethi points out that the world of book authors is a financial wasteland and you're better off investing your meager salary than writing a book.

But when the bottom line is a meager salary or unemployment no matter how you slice it, it becomes easier to slice it the way that will make you happiest.

If you think you are taking the moral high ground by being evasive about your salary instead of lying, be warned that the only thing this accomplishes is creating a perception that you have something to hide and that you are likely worth a meager salary.

Some took initiatives to relocate and study abroad while some kept struggling with their meager salaries for their entire lifetime.

We just bought tiny cottage, trying to deocrate on our meager salaries... would love to see anyone of these hanging over our table!