How to Use income in a Sentence

income

noun
  • Farming is his main source of income.
  • He earns a good income as a consultant.
  • Even on two incomes, we're having a hard time keeping up with our bills.
  • What was the company's annual income?
  • Any income from investments must be reported.
  • Is this going to count as taxable income for this year?
    Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • That means its harder to stay housed at any income level.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • More than half the money has gone to homeowners whose incomes are 30% or less of the area median.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The report found that the best places for Airbnb hosts to make an extra buck on top of their typical income are in Arizona.
    Laura Bratton, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The share of median household income in the New York area eaten up by the median rent rose from 35% to 37% in that time.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
  • For a family of one, there's a monthly income limit of $2,266.
    Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Young adults, low-income adults and parents were most likely to rank their mental health as fair or poor.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The store is now a tourist attraction and gets a significant portion of its income from the sale of tote bags and T-shirts.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • All three dancers agree that City Ballet wasn’t much of a company in 1948; there were no steady seasons — and no steady income.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Enlarge / Health care spending of high income-countries by share of GDP.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2023
  • In fact, a recent report shows a record 12 million U.S. households now spend more than half of their income on rent.
    Heather L. Whitley, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Thomas Beckmen, the orchestra’s board chairman, said the L.A. Phil will be ending the year with record sales and income of $160 million.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • Soaring home and rent prices have eaten into incomes and priced some people out of the market.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Time to Save for a Down Payment The amount of time required to save for a down payment was factored based on average income.
    Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Prices and income requirements to achieve a first home are beyond even the median U.S. wage.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024
  • The state raised the income limits and no longer restricts the assets that beneficiaries can have.
    Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 9 May 2023
  • But a failure to update the income guidelines could have hurt other students.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Banks earn income by borrowing cash and lending it out at a higher rate.
    Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Spacey has agreed to pay the $1 million over multiple years in installments equal to 10% of his after-tax income.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
  • TikTok users who make their living on the app have complained that losing access to the app would plummet their incomes.
    Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The building, with ground-floor space rented by the church for services, offers homes to people who earn 60% or less of the area’s median income.
    Eden Stiffman, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
  • The first can be misused while trying to get rid of ordinary income or capital gain on the sale of the property.
    Cortlynn Stark, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Since December, Diaz and his wife have lost about $3,000 in income from reduced work.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2023
  • It was driven by a 23% y-o-y rise in the non-interest revenues, followed by a 29% growth in the net interest income.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Whether a small town is a workable location for Chipotle depends on income and other intangibles.
    Kevin Williams, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2024

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