earnings vs employ

earnings

noun
  • Wages, money earned, income. 

  • Business profits. 

  • Gains on investments; returns. 

employ

noun
  • The state of being an employee; employment. 

verb
  • To hire (somebody for work or a job). 

  • To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task). 

  • To make busy. 

How often have the words earnings and employ occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )