take-home pay

noun

ˈtāk-ˌhōm- 

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

Examples of take-home pay in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Word History

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined above

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Kids Definition

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)