take-home pay

noun

Definition of take-home paynext
as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples of take-home pay There’s also another, less perceptible way higher healthcare costs erode take-home pay. — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026 The 50/30/20 rule is a budgeting framework that divides your take-home pay into three categories. — Javier Simon, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026 The union says that, as a result, some production assistants on Chicago Fire saw their weekly take-home pay dip 43 percent. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026 Doubles champions also get a pay bump of 10%, making their take-home pay £760,000 (just over $1 million). — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 12 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for take-home pay
Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
  1. minimum wage
  2. living wage
  3. salary
  4. wage
  5. pay envelope
  6. pay
Noun
  • Bottoms called for raising the minimum wage for state employees and creating a path to free technical and community college.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Continue reading … -- POLITICS PRICE OF PROGRESS — States set to trigger fresh minimum wage hikes with pay floors more than double federal rate.
    — , FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of minimum wage
Noun
  • The pilot found that workers were earning around 30 to 35 percent below a living wage benchmark, highlighting a challenge that often remains hidden within supply chains.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The coalition of more than 80 unions and various community groups is pushing for living wage jobs, new housing units and protections for immigrant workers.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of living wage
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  • The 54-year-old, who reportedly earned a $16 million salary in 2025, launched his own YouTube channel last week, showing off the sprawling virtual city.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Sanabria has criticized Fernandez’s previous decisions, including voting to fire and replace Iglesias, and later voting to raise commissioners’ salaries.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of salary
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  • The teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles, in a memo to school board members, presented a counter interpretation and said the state team exaggerated the crisis and was implicitly faulting justified wage increases.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Astonishingly, a servant’s wages amounted to only $3,750 to $4,500 per year.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 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
  • Cruz said the union’s demands were about more than firefighters’ pay.
    — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Fitzgerald suspended Martin for 10 days without pay following an Internal Affairs investigation.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of pay

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

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