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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

After 90 days or once the employee turns 20, whichever happens first, they must be paid at least the regular minimum wage.

— Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2026
As Cambodia begins negotiations over the 2027 minimum wage, workers and their representatives are calling for a larger increase to cope with mounting food, fuel and living costs.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 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

Every year, often more than once a year, DK Metcalf gives some of his salary back to the NFL.

— Jonathan Jones, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Unions serve as a vital counterbalance in an economy where corporate profits and executive salaries often overshadow the needs of the workforce.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of salary

Noun

Even with a squad laden with graduates from their La Masia youth academy, Barca’s wage bill is routinely one of football’s highest, reflecting how much the club must pay in order to retain its talent.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Trump claimed the payments would be possible because of the economy's strength, yet consumer sentiment is weak as gasoline prices are increasing because of the war with Iran and wages are struggling to keep pace with inflation.

— BILL BARROW, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 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

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