They were paid $11 per month, which was three times a common laborer's wages at the time.
I worked as a common laborer until I was 50.
Now, he had no difficulty finding work as a common laborer.
During this era, the economic situation for the common laborer was a difficult one.
He had worked as a common laborer in the building trades since childhood.
A common laborer in those days would have worked ten hours for a dollar.
At a time like this, they were all common laborers when there was work to be done.
"Then he got wind of the news that she was going to sell him off, as a common laborer."
His sons had to leave school and become common laborers.
You cannot ask us to do the work of common laborers.