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 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 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 See All Example Sentences for take-home pay

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Gonzales ran with a platform decisively to the left, supporting Medicare-for-all, raising the minimum wage and cracking down on junk fees.

— Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Candidates at Tuesday’s forum largely focused on affordability and education, often agreeing with each other on matters like increasing the federal minimum wage and the need for access to quality affordable housing.

— Raisa Habersham July 1, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026

Definition of minimum wage

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The new fees would cover enforcement of the city’s new hospitality wage, which took effect July 1, along with the city’s traffic control worker wage, which took effect in 2023, and a compliance system usage fee for city contracts.

— David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2026
That's $30,000 above the median wages for all jobs — quite a leap for a program that takes less than two years to complete and costs about $42,000 at PIA.

— Bill Chappell, NPR, 9 July 2026

Definition of wage

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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The law would be repealed if it is absorbed by a collective bargaining agreement that gives the special education teacher aides equal to or better than a $10,000 pay raise.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 13 July 2026
The Paramount response, via a two-page press release, followed the filing of the lawsuit, which contends that the merger will create an anticompetitive entity controlling too much of the pay-TV and movie studio sectors.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 July 2026

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