take-home pay

noun

Definition of take-home paynext
as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples of take-home pay 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 Tools such as the ADP Salary Paycheck Calculator can help graduates estimate their take-home pay after taxes and common payroll deductions. — Vanessa Duplessie, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 That means take-home pay often remains low. — Julia Bowling, The Conversation, 29 May 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
  • Bidwell pointed to a lawsuit last year in Washington in which Tacoma detainees sued the private prison company GEO Group over minimum wage violations.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026
  • Part of reducing people’s financial burdens would also include increasing the state minimum wage to $15, according to her campaign social media page.
    — Sofi Zeman July 16, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2026
Definition of minimum wage
Noun
  • Maybe that means hiring full-time refs and paying them a living wage.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of living wage
Noun
  • Inevitably, United will assess the market as the days go on, but Rashford would only want to play for a top team in Europe and his salary is only affordable to a few.
    — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 21 July 2026
  • Major League Baseball is pushing for its first salary cap since 1994, citing competitive imbalance and payroll disparity.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of salary
Noun
  • That would include legally-binding requirements outlining hiring, wages, safety protocols and environmental protections that would benefit residents locally.
    — Sofi Zeman July 16, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2026
  • Rising costs across the produce supply chain Growing everything from strawberries to collard greens is labor intensive, and for many years, worker shortages have compelled farms to hike wages.
    — Elizabeth Canales, The Conversation, 16 July 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
  • Some hospitality workers may have been asked to work longer hours during the games for higher pay – but that wouldn’t show up meaningfully in the jobs report.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • According to Bloomberg, citing Insurify, the average annual premium reached $8,292 last year, roughly four times what homeowners in New York pay, and costs are expected to keep climbing.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 July 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 23 Jul. 2026.

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