Thesaurus results for TAKE-HOME PAY

take-home pay

noun

Definition of take-home pay

as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples of take-home pay The rising cost of housing is squeezing Americans’ take-home pay, and a major cause of the problem is overregulation. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 9 July 2026 Neither is their spouses' income, which in the case of the chief justice, for instance, likely far exceeds his take-home pay. — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 8 July 2026 Their money had gone into a cozy Craftsman house in Menlo Park, and repaying medical-school debt and the salary for their nanny ate up the majority of Greenwald’s take-home pay. — Melanie Thernstrom, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 Inflation outpaced the rate of wage gains for the second consecutive months, eating away at the purchasing power of take-home pay for many Americans. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for take-home pay

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Noun

Kim, 49, a member of San Francisco’s board of supervisors from 2011 to 2019, has touted her advocacy for California’s first $15 minimum wage and making the city’s community college tuition free, among other progressive causes.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Raise the minimum wage, expand overtime pay, get rid of tax breaks for the top 1%, create a cost of living tax cut, give small businesses a tax cut and rebuild labor unions.

— Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of minimum wage

Noun

The announcement follows similar action taken by workers at various branches of the V&A Museum in London, who voted to strike over pay, working conditions, and the institution’s refusal to seek living wage accreditation.

— News Desk, Artforum, 3 Aug. 2026
Maybe that means hiring full-time refs and paying them a living wage.

— Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026

Definition of living wage

Noun

The additional pension costs imposed by AB 1383 would leave cities with less money for staffing, salaries, and other public services or require significant tax increases.

— Mariana Trujillo, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2026
Without his salary, Bondele says, paying rent, buying food and phone credit, covering transportation costs and paying water bills have become daily struggles.

— Prosper Heri Ngorora, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of salary

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Bondele was among hundreds of Ebola response workers in Bunia who staged strikes and protests over unpaid wages in recent weeks, at times abandoning health facilities and disrupting parts of the response as the outbreak continued to spread.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
The plaintiff is suing for compensatory damages for her injuries, medical expenses, lost job wages and more.

— Katie Houlis, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of wage

Noun

Immigrant workmen gave up a pay envelope, schoolchildren put in pennies — upward of 150,000 people in all, each name and each donation noted by Pulitzer’s New York World, and almost each one under a dollar.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
Frustrated by the limits of collective bargaining, Reuther came to complain that bargaining, once so promising, had come to focus on just another nickel in the pay envelope.

— John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019

Definition of pay envelope

Noun

Ireland’s museum sector is reportedly plagued by precarious contracts, low pay, unpaid labor, and toxic workplace cultures, driving burnout, excluding talent, and risking the loss of vital institutional knowledge.

— George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 10 Aug. 2026
For most of Season 3, many of those riders have come to realize that dragon riding is a whole lot of work with very little pay and they are still treated like second-class citizens.

— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026

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