Synonyms for underpaid
un·der·paid

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1. underpaidadjective

   Antonyms:
   overpaid

2. underpaidadjective

   I am underpaid and overworked.

   Antonyms:
   overpaid

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1. List of paraphrases for "underpaid":

   low-paid, badly-paid

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1. Bisi Alimi:

   These are young girls in a very macho, masculine society who are trying to make a living, but are being underpaid or not paid on time.

2. Leah Carroll:

   [ Vice's ] contract establishes salary minimums, which have been crucial in bringing those who were underpaid -- including most of our writers, editors, contractors and freelance writers -- up to industry standards, we also were able to secure annual cost-of-living wage increases and standardized job descriptions across the unit.

3. Richard C. Blum:

   If I were to underpay my staff as much as the university is underpaid, I would lose my staff.

4. Daniel J. Boorstin:

   In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

5. David Sabatini:

   A mischaracterization of an informal workplace that is populated by people with MDs and PhDs who are in their 20s and 30s who are, you know, underpaid and together long hours and it’s just not a viper pit of sexual harassment the way that the Whitehead statement made it sound.