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Recent Examples of take-home pay
Workers United members have staged rallies over the last week calling for improved staffing in stores and higher take-home pay as negotiations for a new contract with Starbucks have stalled.
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Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
Tiered pay structures with upside tied to company performance create intrinsic motivation—employees see a direct link between their impact, the firm’s top line and their own take-home pay.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Inflation, as measured in the consumer price index, is up 25.3 percent since the end of the pandemic recession in June 2020 while wages are up 24 percent, meaning that take-home pay has not caught up to prices over that five-year period.
—Tobias Burns, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025
The union says employees can expect an average of $10,000 less in take-home pay.
—Harriet Blair Rowan, Mercury News, 3 July 2025
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Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
Tiered pay structures with upside tied to company performance create intrinsic motivation—employees see a direct link between their impact, the firm’s top line and their own take-home pay.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Inflation, as measured in the consumer price index, is up 25.3 percent since the end of the pandemic recession in June 2020 while wages are up 24 percent, meaning that take-home pay has not caught up to prices over that five-year period.
—Tobias Burns, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025
The union says employees can expect an average of $10,000 less in take-home pay.
—Harriet Blair Rowan, Mercury News, 3 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
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These include women’s right to vote, Medicare, the minimum wage, workplace safety laws, universal health insurance, and civil rights for all races and genders.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Certain sectors would likely be hit harder than others by a higher minimum wage.—
Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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If Johnston heeds that warning, the mayor will likely have to find a proposal that balances workers’ need for a living wage with the desire to attract businesses to the city core in order to find enough council support to pass the legislation.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
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Granor Farm has a staff of more than 30, with over 20 full-time employees who earn a living wage and health benefits.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Dozens of Tarrant County College faculty members have been ordered to pay back portions of their salaries, with college administrators saying the teachers did not meet their contractual obligations.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Nov. 2025
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Possible cuts to come Goals laid out for the 2025-26 school year include reducing spending on supplies, salary costs, contracts and services.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Many have watched their parents or older peers work tirelessly only to face burnout, layoffs, or stagnant wages.—
Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
11 Nov. 2025
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Private-equity firms are deeply embedded in the disaster-recovery industry, sometimes relying on the low-wage labor of immigrants and incarcerated people in order to provide reconstruction services at cut rates.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
10 Nov. 2025
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Veronica hands Flavia the pay envelope.—
Han Ong,
The New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2021
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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
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Musk could still collect more than $50 billion by hitting a handful of the more attainable goals laid out for him by the board in the new pay plan.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
11 Nov. 2025
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The shutdown has disrupted federal operations, delayed pay for hundreds of thousands of workers, and put critical programs at risk.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Take-home pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take-home%20pay. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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