Meanings of meagre salary in English

He was immediately offered the job - albeit on a meagre salary.

Another consideration troubled him-McCrae'sfamily, dependent on a rather meagre salary.

I accept this, even for a meagre salary.

And R. Wilfer, despite his meagre salary, and despite Mrs. Wilfer, enjoys himself whenever he gets a chance.

I doubt you would give up your meagre salary for your own beliefs -if you actually had any.

To them was his allegiance, for them he spoke, wrought, and thought, by them his meagre salary was paid.

While this dry statistic wasn't of immediate concern in itself, my meagre salary as an academic researcher was soon to dry up.

There he rented a small house, and endeavoured by the closest economy to make his meagre salary sufficient to meet every want.

Pound gave ten dollars from his meagre salary, and the Reverend Sylvester Bradley, three times moderator of the synod, a round hundred.

Monsieur Desmarets was, five years before his marriage, in a broker's office, with no other means than the meagre salary of a clerk.

His refusal to accept bribes, despite struggling to make ends meet on his meagre salary, angers those around him -especially his acquisitive wife.

There was also Hignett, who added to the meagre salary allowed him by the bank by singing comic songs at the minor music halls.

He was professor of physics in the high school, possessor of a large family, a meagre salary, and a select fund of parrot-learned knowledge.

Father Uria always had his table set with as much variety and luxury as his meagre salary, and the resources of the mission, allowed.

The workers claim that if they were too tired to work, their meagre salaries were docked.

Bribery and corruption are pervasive in Mexico, where the justice system is weak and lower-level public sector workers earn relatively meagre salaries.