Antonyms of adj wage-earning

2 senses of wage-earning

Sense 1
wage-earning, working-class -- (working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor")

INDIRECT (VIA blue-collar) -> white-collar -- (of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers; "the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper")

Sense 2
propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar -- (of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw)

INDIRECT (VIA upper-class, lower-class) -> middle-class -- (occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy)
INDIRECT (VIA lower-class, middle-class) -> upper-class -- (occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society)

Similarity of adj wage-earning

2 senses of wage-earning

Sense 1
wage-earning, working-class -- (working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor")
       => blue-collar (vs. white-collar) -- (of or designating manual industrial work or workers)

Sense 2
propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar -- (of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw)
       => lower-class (vs. middle-class) (vs. upper-class), low-class -- (occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society)