earner
n. B2 Upper Intermediate US //ˈɝnɝ// UK //ˈɜːnɐ// earn·er
n. a person who has a job and earns money. It is a common way to describe someone who works to support themselves or their family.
n. a person who earns a living through employment or other means. Often used in the plural to refer to the primary income providers in a household.
The couple decided to move to a larger house now that both of them are established earners.
Economic policy often focuses on increasing the number of earners within a household to reduce overall dependency on government assistance programs.
From earn + -er.