But soon after her marriage to Walter Morel, she realizes the difficulties of living off his meagre salary in a rented house.

Part of the meagre salary was often used to pay fines.

Her only income was Napoleon's meagre salary.

This left his wife to bring up alone his two children on a meagre salary.

Although it states that working conditions for drivers are unacceptable, it endorses their meagre salaries.

You have a meagre salary from the university.

Houghton's expenses were far beyond his meagre salary.

Later he became a ticket collector in a drama company for a meagre salary.

In 1993 he went to Cyprus and worked in night clubs for two years earning meagre salaries.

To supplement meagre salaries many journalists have other business interests, said police, making them targets for robbery and extortion.