(noun) Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
"Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption."
"No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk."
"Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned."