take-home pay

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Recent Examples of take-home pay For higher earners, however, the 25% cap often applies, meaning a substantial portion of your take-home pay could be withheld if the debt collection process progresses to this stage. Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026 Former servers at Jon & Vinny’s, a popular Italian American restaurant with several Southern California locations, filed a class-action lawsuit in 2023 alleging that their company denied servers tips and was eating into their take-home pay because of diner confusion over an 18% service fee. Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026 Those inflated costs fall squarely on the shoulders of small businesses and working families through higher premiums and lower take-home pay. Bianca Blomquist, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026 Beginning in 2026, though, withholding tables will reflect changes so that taxpayers receive many tax cuts through higher take-home pay going forward. Susan Tompor, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for take-home pay
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Noun
  • Dube does concede that raising the minimum wage above some threshold could have an adverse impact on hiring.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • In November 2024, California voters narrowly rejected an initiative that would have raised the minimum wage to $18 an hour.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Data from the Census Bureau and Good Reason Houston has shown that one in five families in Houston live under the poverty line, and only one in five high school graduates earned a living wage six years after graduation.
    Ashley Soebroto, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026
  • If one parent is working, the calculator found $55 an hour is needed for a living wage.
    Tim Fang, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The Observer compared full-time city employee salaries from its database to publicly available data for similar positions in Mecklenburg County and other cities throughout the country.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The young stars of Netflix’s Stranger Things were successful in securing big salary bumps heading into the show’s fifth and final season.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The union said the company had offered less than 2% more a year in wages, which is less than inflation in Colorado.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2026
  • An earnings tax is a tax paid on income earned by a person, like salaries, wages, tips and investments.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Veronica hands Flavia the pay envelope.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • 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
Noun
  • The meaning of pay Diner said that while the pay increase signed into law is real money, the monetary increase can’t be taken at face value.
    Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
  • In a previous interview, Nichols said the union’s concerns center on pay, workload and job conditions for school administrators, including long hours and limited autonomy.
    Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026

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“Take-home pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take-home%20pay. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.

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