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Recent Examples of take-home pay
The One Big Beautiful Bill is a big first step to provide relief for the American people, to give everybody more take-home pay, more money in their pocket, and to change the trajectory of the country.
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Nbc News, NBC news, 1 June 2025
In contrast, the exemption for taxes on overtime pay is projected to increase take-home pay and contribute to economic growth.
—Cindy McGhee, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
This means you'll be taxed at a lower rate, resulting in less money being withheld for taxes and more take-home pay.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Lately, because inflation has slowed, take-home pay is holding steady or rising slightly — but most people still haven’t fully caught up.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2025
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Nbc News, NBC news, 1 June 2025
In contrast, the exemption for taxes on overtime pay is projected to increase take-home pay and contribute to economic growth.
—Cindy McGhee, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
This means you'll be taxed at a lower rate, resulting in less money being withheld for taxes and more take-home pay.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Lately, because inflation has slowed, take-home pay is holding steady or rising slightly — but most people still haven’t fully caught up.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 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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But using a trade exception, which allows a team to acquire a player in a trade even if their salary would otherwise put the team over the salary cap or the team is already over the salary cap, hard caps teams at the first apron.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2025
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Just this year, Marner will collect $9.45 million of the $15 million coming between the signing bonus and salary.—
Tyler Small,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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After the regime's move in late 2023 to raise official wages tenfold, the average worker now earns about 30,000 North Korean won—less than $4—per month, analysts say.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
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 5 Jul. 2025.
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