underpaid

/ ˌʌndəˈpeɪd /

adjective

1. not paid enough

   underpaid and overworked

Example Sentences

Even public-service lawyering jobs, while underpaid for the field, still pay better than low-wage warehouse labor.

From The Daily Beast

I spent four years in a prison where each handicapped convict was issued an underpaid inmate assistant.

From The Daily Beast

Doctors, who were overworked and underpaid, began taking bribes to provide care.

From The Daily Beast

You might even make the case that Jamie Dimon is the most underpaid CEO in America.

From The Daily Beast

Teachers are underpaid—if they are paid at all since many public schools have frozen salaries.

From The Daily Beast

He had, however, no idea of this, and considered himself indispensable and miserably underpaid.

From Project Gutenberg

But for the labor of these men (assumed to be underpaid, etc.), there would be no return out of which to pay rent.

From Project Gutenberg

It is for the sublime struggle of the underpaid workman that our sympathies need now to be aroused.

From Project Gutenberg

It is the Quarter where lives the underpaid, often unemployed workingman, a common type in a city which has no factory industries.

From Project Gutenberg

These others are only hungry serranos and underpaid bullfighters.

From Project Gutenberg