PITTANCE

[noun] [C usually singular] [disapproving] - a very small amount of money, esp. money received as payment, income or a presentHe works hard but only earns/is only paid a pittance.Nutritionists have demonstrated that an adequate diet can be maintained on a pittance.She lives on the pittance her father left her when he died.$30 billion might seem a lot of money, but it's a mere pittance in terms of what global capital markets can and do absorb.