English / proverb
If You Pay Peanuts, You Get Monkeys
MEANING IN ENGLISH
Offering trivial salaries will only recruit low-caliber, careless, or poorly skilled staff.
In context
01
They slashed the cybersecurity budget and lost sensitive records; if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
02
In upholding public justice, governments must recognize that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Synonyms
cheap pay gets poor talent,low compensation brings low competence,penny-pinching costs dearly
Antonyms
generous rewards bring top talent,high compensation attracts professionals,invest in top quality
Collocations
truth that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys,realize that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys,warn that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys