However, he cannot afford to buy it on his meager salary.

Their meager salaries weren't enough to make them face a riot.

They all live in extreme poverty and earn meager salaries.

On the meager salary paid him for these labors he had been supporting himself ever since.

She looks after the family with her meager salary.

Although I had a day job, my meager salary would never have allowed me to pay market rate on such a place.

Many officials are forced into corruption to supplement meager salaries.

His mother brought up two sons on a Boston librarian's meager salary, not enough for college.

Four years later, he was still playing in the minors, living on a meager salary.

It was a nice cushion, one that would guarantee our meager salaries for a few years.