| REALWAGES | Purchasing power of earnings in true form (4,5) |
| REALINCOME | Purchasing power of earnings in Brazil? (4,6) |
| TENURE | Space in true form of occupancy (6) |
| NINCOMPOOP | Fool investing most of earnings in new exhaust |
| HEIST | This criminal pockets first of earnings in armed hold-up (5) |
| DEFLATIONARY | Relating to increases in the purchasing power of money within the economy (12) |
| TABLATURE | Drums and true form of guitar notation (9) |
| RECTITUDE | Cited true form of morality (9) |
| MINIATURE | I'm in a true form however small it appears |
| INCOMETAX | Part of earnings lost? (6,3) |
| BASICWAGE | Graduate, with time, pockets such a small amount of earnings? (5,4) |
| ANNOUNCES | Reports of earnings regularly carrying little weight (9) |
| TREASURER | Err as true form reveals fund keeper |
| REDCENT | Smallest unit of purchasing power, in an idiom |
| HAIL | Precipitation falling as ice pellets or minute frozen particles of convective cumulonimbi clouds in its hard "true" form or as graupel in a "softer" form (4) |
| PARITY | From the Latin for "equal", a word among economists for equivalence in currency/rate of exchange, price, purchasing power, value or wages (6) |
| BIGMAC | ___ Index (measurement of purchasing power based on the price of a fast-food burger) |
| PRIVATEINCOME | Earnings in a form other than salary (7,6) |
| CREDIT | Belief in purchasing power (6) |
| MONEY | My one source of purchasing power (5) |
