salariat

noun

1. Salary earners as a class or group, often as opposed to wage earners.

   “1954, J. S. Coleman, Nationalism in Tropical Africa, American Political Science Association […] geographical distribution of the wage-labor force and salariat?”

   “Below that elite comes the ‘salariat’, still in stable full-time employment, some hoping to move into the elite, the majority just enjoying the trappings of their kind, with their pensions, paid holidays and enterprise benefits, often subsidised by the state.”