take-home pay

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Recent Examples of take-home pay Average weekly hours worked also increased, bolstering take-home pay. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 May 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for take-home pay
Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
Noun
  • Construction work on 485-x-eligible sites with at least 100 units must offer a minimum wage of $40 an hour to all respective workers.
    Paxton Honerkamp, CNBC, 23 June 2026
  • However, certain cities have their own specific local ordinance that requires minimum wage increases.
    Noe Padilla, USA Today, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • California is tops in the nation for average teacher salary at $103,552; EPI sets a living wage in the state at $73,311.
    Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • The Sacramento Kings traded guard Devin Carter and a second-round pick to the Atlanta Hawks for salary cap relief Monday.
    Ruyuan Li. Summary produced by AI assistance, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2026
  • Book deals regularly eclipse Supreme Court justices' $300,000 government salaries.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Interestingly, close to one-third of wage and salary workers also worked from home at least some of the time.
    Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • Instead, compensation is distributed through milestones outlined in a legal contract before pregnancy begins, with additional reimbursements covering travel, childcare, lost wages and medical expenses that arise throughout the process.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 27 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
  • Several companies noted their CEO’s pay is tied to executive performance, whether through equity or bonuses tied to meeting certain milestones or goals.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • The ratings draw on data from millions of actual workers, in postings on LinkedIn, Indeed and other sites that illustrate patterns in pay, retention and advancement.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 29 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 3 Jul. 2026.

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