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Recent Examples of take-home pay
On the surface, exempting tips from being taxed might sound like a pro-worker proposal with populist appeal, potentially boosting take-home pay for service sector workers who rely on tips to make a living.
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Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 21 May 2025
The report notes that its take-home pay figures are informed by estimates from the Joint Committee on Taxation.
—Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 21 May 2025
At worst, the tax policy might even put a downward pressure on service sector wages by allowing employers to keep their workers’ baseline pay low because the tax cut could instead raise the workers’ take-home pay.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 21 May 2025
Disposable pay generally means your take-home pay after mandatory deductions.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 21 May 2025
The report notes that its take-home pay figures are informed by estimates from the Joint Committee on Taxation.
—Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 21 May 2025
At worst, the tax policy might even put a downward pressure on service sector wages by allowing employers to keep their workers’ baseline pay low because the tax cut could instead raise the workers’ take-home pay.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 21 May 2025
Disposable pay generally means your take-home pay after mandatory deductions.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
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Finally, minimum wage will go up in several counties and cities across the state.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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Many of the folks that rely on Medicaid work for minimum wage, making too little to qualify for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Seniors and the disabled that rely on Medicaid for long-term care stand to lose even more.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 June 2025
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Using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Living Wage Calculator, the report found that 65.7% of entry-level jobs in KC pay a living wage of $22.75 an hour or $47,320 annually.—
Ramal Nasim,
Kansas City Star,
23 June 2025
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Union workers, most importantly, who couldn’t afford to feed their children and needed a living wage.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2025
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The lawsuit claims that Robinson was paid a salary of $125,000 by the Chiefs, but that his research found other NFL teams paid comparable positions an average salary of $171,932, not including other benefits.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
20 June 2025
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Since 2013, the Dodgers have exceeded MLB’s luxury tax threshold (the closest thing baseball has to a soft salary cap) eight times and topped the league in spending seven times.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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Richard Arsenault claimed his supervisors retaliated against him for seeking life-saving medical care and that he was shorted owed wages.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
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The German signed a new deal — his current one — helping to spread his wages over more years.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
27 June 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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Still, some employers are hesitant to reduce weekly hours while providing full pay and benefits.—
Julia Sullivan,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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Whereas a hardware company might offer a new Ph.D $150K or $200K to start, a software company (with much higher gross margins) can win the day with a $500K package including performance pay and equity.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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“Take-home pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take-home%20pay. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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