Brings in, as a salary
The crossword clue "Brings in, as a salary" is answered by EARNS, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EARNS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EARNS answer page.
Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EARNS
Every other clue in this collection answered by EARNS, most used first.
- Merits - used 123 times, most recently in 2026
- Brings in - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
- Deserves - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Brings home - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Pulls down - used 35 times, most recently in 2024
- Makes - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Makes money - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Takes home - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Works for - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Makes, as a salary - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Brings home the bacon - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Comes by honestly - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Works hard for - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Makes, as money - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Has coming - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Takes in - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Acquires - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
- Is a breadwinner - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Pulls in - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Nets - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Rakes in - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Becomes worthy of - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Is worthy of - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Pulls down, so to speak - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Qualifies for - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Realizes - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Brings up - REARS, used 173 times
- Salary increase - RAISE, used 58 times
- Brings under control - TAMES, used 42 times
- Brings in - REAPS, used 34 times
- Brings on board - HIRES, used 24 times
- Salary bump - RAISE, used 21 times
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