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 Experts say the escalating costs of employers’ premiums are reducing workers’ wages and take-home pay, while raising the prices of goods and services in California and across the country. — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 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 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 See All Example Sentences for take-home pay

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Noun

The dollar value of the minimum wage has fallen from about $105 to $86 since late March as the rial has weakened significantly.

— Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 29 Aug. 2026
In 2014, Reginald Wayne pleaded guilty in federal court to four felony charges and two misdemeanor charges related to labor fraud, visa fraud and failing to pay minimum wages to students at his Bible college.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 28 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

Powell left for the Chicago Bulls in free agency, after the Heat lacked the remaining salary-cap wherewithal to match the Bulls’ offer.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026
However, there are more lucrative career opportunities on the table, like traditional fuel production paying an average salary of $65,400, or power plant operators, who take home around $103,600 annually.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of salary

Noun

The district also provided only hourly wages for some employees and annual pay for others, hence the two separate pay columns in our database.

— Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 27 Aug. 2026
Over the course of 23 bargaining sessions, the union and district representatives have negotiated on class size, wages and Special Education resources, among 57 total proposals.

— Zachary Fletcher, USA Today, 27 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

The rise of the gig economy has reset expectations around pay, with workers like Uber drivers able to access their earnings as soon as a job is completed rather than waiting until the end of a shift, Brandman said.

— Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
Examples of financial situation changes include job loss, significant pay cuts, high out-of-pocket medical or dental costs, divorce or a family member becoming unemployed.

— Amy DeYoung, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026

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