A family's annual earnings often determine not only its standard of living but also its access to quality education and healthcare.
一个家庭的年收入往往不仅决定其生活水平，还决定其获得优质教育和医疗保健的机会。
Which choice best defines “earnings”?
A — Money that you get from working. “earnings” means money that you get from working.
Which word means “money that you get from working”?
B — earnings. “earnings” means money that you get from working.
earnings — money that you get from working. In Chinese: 收入，工资.
earnings is pronounced /ˈɜːrnɪŋz/.
A family's annual earnings often determine not only its standard of living but also its access to quality education and healthcare. (一个家庭的年收入往往不仅决定其生活水平，还决定其获得优质教育和医疗保健的机会。)
income, wages, salary — all close in meaning to earnings (money that you get from working).
expenses, losses — each the opposite of earnings (money that you get from working).
Yes. earnings is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.