take-home pay

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Recent Examples of take-home pay The median household income in Valparaiso is $69,872, leading to take-home pay of around $1,100 per week after federal income and FICA taxes. Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026 The amount that can be taken is limited by federal law, but even within those limits, the difference in your take-home pay can be significant. Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 1 May 2026 Employees may expect higher take-home pay or assume overtime is tax-free. Fennemore, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026 Starting in January, the monthly premiums for the health plan used by many teachers rose from zero to $1,400 a month paid over 10 months each year — an enormous reduction in take-home pay. Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for take-home pay
Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
Noun
  • The city’s recent approval of a higher minimum wage for tourism workers only adds to the financial challenges, Green said.
    Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026
  • Under this law, a creditor generally can't take more than 25% of your disposable earnings, or the amount by which your weekly disposable earnings exceed 30 times the federal minimum wage — whichever is smaller.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • Additionally, the brand’s Living Wage Program, a supply chain initiative that assesses living wage benchmarks based on regional costs of living, continued with eight suppliers.
    Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 1 June 2026
  • The living wage in Mecklenburg County is currently estimated around $53,100, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Living Wage Calculator.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • Workers were demanding salary increases, protection against subcontracting and job loss through automation, and were refusing to comply with FIFA’s request to collect sensitive private information such as nationality and home addresses.
    Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • The Atlanta Braves legend also noted that a salary cap has not translated to a competitive environment in other professional sports leagues.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • As costs continue to outpace wages and retirement incomes, some homeowners are making a high-stakes calculation to go without insurance altogether.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 6 June 2026
  • Pausing the incentives also means temporarily suspending tax credit rules that require data center projects that claim the credits to enter into labor agreements before construction begins to set wages, benefits, and working conditions — a beneficial policy for unions.
    Jack O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • Veronica hands Flavia the pay envelope.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The men who built the ships of the U.S. Navy men like Charles Fort of Dundalk and William Hooper of White Marsh had the satisfaction of doing a job right, of contributing to the nation's defense and of bringing home to their eastern Baltimore County communities a regular pay envelope.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
Noun
  • Remember the legal brawl CEO Elon Musk faced over his $56 billion moonshot pay package at Tesla?
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 6 June 2026
  • Now, the election has led to accusations of an intricate web of connection between the Kemp and Dooley families, and potential pay-to-play politics dating back to Kemp's first days in the state house.
    Irene Wright, USA Today, 6 June 2026

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“Take-home pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take-home%20pay. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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