impoverished vs low-paid

impoverished

adj
  • Reduced to poverty. 

  • Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted. 

low-paid

adj
  • Of a worker: earning poor pay, less than the average wage. 

How often have the words impoverished and low-paid occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )