Definitions for "earner"
Keywords:  wages, xpe, salaries, labor, census
someone who earns wages in return for labor.
An earner is a person 15 years of age and over who is a recipient of employment income, i.e. he/she received income from one or more of the three sources of employment income (wages and salaries, net non-farm or net farm income) during the reference year. (Source: 1996 Census Dictionary, Cat. No. 92-351-XPE, Statistics Canada)
someone who earn wages in return for their labor