take-home pay

noun

: income remaining from salary or wages after deductions (as for income-tax withholding)

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For example, my company continuously calculates take-home pay, taxes, health care premiums, retirement contributions, and other withholdings for our customers and their employees, regardless of the duration between pay cycles. Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025 Start with your take-home pay (after taxes and deductions), then itemize essential expenses (housing, food, transportation, utilities, loan payments) and then account for your fun spending (eating out, entertainment, travel, streaming). Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 27 May 2025 Adjusted for inflation, American workers across age and income groups saw their after-tax take-home pay grow more slowly than the economy as a whole since 2019. Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025 In a matter of months, Kenyans with a 45,000-shilling-a-month salary — roughly $350 — saw their take-home pay shrink 9 percent, to $262. Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 4 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for take-home pay

Word History

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of take-home pay was in 1942

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“Take-home pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take-home%20pay. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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take-home pay

noun
ˌtāk-ˌhōm-
: the part of one's salary or wages remaining after deductions (as of income tax payments or union dues)

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