Workers earn just $200 a month with the minimum wage, below the poverty line of $285.

At least 20 percent of the units are for people earning below an area's median income.

You do not pay tax on anything you earn below this amount.

For graduates earning below £21,000, there will be no real rate of interest applied to their loan.

About 70,000 units of affordable housing have been made available for residents earning below $50,000, he said.

Could be that a lot of these 80,000 new jobless were earning below average salary.

That is why they moved to protect the lowest workers, those earning below £15,000 from the reforms.

"The market for people who are earning below $75,000 a year is really tough," he said.

The company earned $13 million, or 52 cents a share, slightly below expectations.

State employees earn $300 a month, on average, an income well below earnings in the private sector.