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Recent Examples of take-home pay
If earnings stay the same from 2025 to 2026, wider brackets could mean a bit higher take-home pay.
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Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2026
Increase take-home pay via deductions for overtime, tips and certain worker expenses.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 18 Dec. 2025
That deal, though, is reportedly prorated over the next four games, with Rivers’ real take-home pay at $278,889.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025
The union is asking the company for better hours to improve staffing, higher take-home pay so baristas can pay their bills and the resolution of outstanding legal issues as a result of union busting.
—Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Dec. 2025
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Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2026
Increase take-home pay via deductions for overtime, tips and certain worker expenses.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 18 Dec. 2025
That deal, though, is reportedly prorated over the next four games, with Rivers’ real take-home pay at $278,889.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025
The union is asking the company for better hours to improve staffing, higher take-home pay so baristas can pay their bills and the resolution of outstanding legal issues as a result of union busting.
—Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
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Over the last year, labor tensions over minimum wages and working conditions have intensified over the past year, even as global consumption patterns disrupted orders.—
Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
16 Feb. 2026
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They are paid well below minimum wage for the work.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2026
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Now, no matter the caseload, OFR attorneys are guaranteed a living wage.—
Raynee Howell,
Oklahoma Watch,
9 Feb. 2026
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In a Star-Telegram questionnaire returned ahead of the runoff, Rehmet said his policy priorities include fully funding public schools, helping Texans earn a living wage and addressing affordability issues like property taxes, home and rent costs, health insurance rates and the cost of groceries.—
Eleanor Dearman
Updated January 23,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Jan. 2026
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Should the Clippers be found to have circumvented salary cap rules though Leonard’s no-show contract with Aspiration, the organization faces the potential loss of draft picks, fines and/or Leonard’s contract being voided.—
Janis Carr,
Oc Register,
19 Feb. 2026
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His time as a Red Sox ended with a blockbuster trade to the Giants that, in time, is looking more like a salary dump on Boston’s end.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Immigration should expand opportunity and economic growth—not undercut wages or displace working Americans.—
Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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The affordability crisis characterized by rising rents, stagnant wages and a shortage of affordable housing is driving instability, homelessness and longer commutes.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Feb. 2026
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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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But its last shutdown plan, released in late September, indicates that 91% of its employees would continue to work without pay.—
Riley Beggin,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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Transportation Security Administration officers are expected to work without pay while lawmakers remain without an agreement on Homeland Security's annual funding.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Take-home pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take-home%20pay. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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