take-home pay

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Recent Examples of take-home pay Beginning in 2026, though, withholding tables will reflect changes so that taxpayers receive many tax cuts through higher take-home pay going forward. Susan Tompor, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026 Neither is necessarily a bad thing, but a large refund can also mean less take-home pay during the year and is the equivalent of making an interest-free loan to the government. Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026 If earnings stay the same from 2025 to 2026, wider brackets could mean a bit higher take-home pay. Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2026 That deal, though, is reportedly prorated over the next four games, with Rivers’ real take-home pay at $278,889. Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for take-home pay
Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
Noun
  • Employers pared back hiring last year to cope with Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ payroll tax rises and large increases in the minimum wage.
    Irina Anghel, Bloomberg, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Politicians meet with waitresses at a diner to pitch raising the minimum wage or tour a factory to spotlight job growth.
    Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Which city department pays the most employees below living wage?
    Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Now, no matter the caseload, OFR attorneys are guaranteed a living wage.
    Raynee Howell, Oklahoma Watch, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Quiñones’ hefty salary of $750,000, which drew attention when she was hired, was meant to be competitive with private utility companies.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Funding for staff salaries, parks, libraries, road maintenance, recreation programs and community services for seniors and families all come from the same limited municipal resources.
    Rajiv Bhateja, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • White plans to lead a protest against the pop-up co-organized with wage-advocacy nonprofit One Fair Wage.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
  • High rents and expensive homes are driving families and high-wage jobs out of California.
    Matt Mahan, Mercury News, 7 Mar. 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
  • Clark could be an extension or pay-cut candidate.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • There’d been a sense of foreboding since the French media giant completed its $2 billion takeover of South African pay-TV company MultiChoice last year, with the company mum on its post-merger plans and suspicion rampant that cost-cutting measures were in the cards.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 7 Mar. 2026

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“Take-home pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take-home%20pay. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.

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