take-home pay

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Recent Examples of take-home pay Despite higher inflation, take-home pay for Latino workers starting in 2022’s first quarter has averaged $284.30, a level almost 5% higher under Biden. Louis Jacobson, Austin American-Statesman, 10 July 2024 And the joy of having more take-home pay now would evaporate when the bills start coming due. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024 Child care for Gray’s youngest son is $22,000 a year – nearly 20% of her family’s take-home pay and their second-largest monthly expense after rent. Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024 At the time of the podcast’s recording, the couple was allocating 14% of their take-home pay toward retirement and other post-tax investments. Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for take-home pay
Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
Noun
  • But two of his priorities—expanding the child tax credit and raising the minimum wage—were set back by inflation.
    Jason Furman, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Georgia, where the state minimum wage is $5.15, maintains a minimum wage below the federal level but must adhere to the national rate for most workers.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Service contractors operating in Tier One jurisdictions are required to pay a living wage of at least $16.63, whereas service contractors operating in Tier 2 jurisdictions are required to pay at least $15 per hour.
    Scott T. Gibson, Baltimore Sun, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The union, which started in 2022, said Amazon employees work for a multi-billion dollar corporation and deserve a living wage.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In the category of salary percentage increase, ESADE weighed in with an impressive 173% increase over the average salary of an entering student.
    Dr. Marlena Corcoran, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The price of each tender also rises with the salary cap each year.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The analysis found that all nations involved in a trade war experience a reduction in real wages, with farmers suffering the greatest losses on average.
    Jack Randall, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
  • From 2018 to 2022, individuals and organizations from blue states contributed nearly 60% of all federal tax receipts but only received 53% of all federal contributions to states in the form of either direct payments, grants, contracts, or wages.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
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
  • San Diego officials say the effort to raise user fees is being propelled partly by inflation increasing the city’s costs for equipment and maintenance at its facilities and partly to offset the cost of generous pay raises given to nearly all city employees since 2023.
    Jeanne Rawdin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Listen to this article Senator J.D. Ford, D-Indianapolis, attempted to amend a bill making school board elections partisan to only include a pay raise for board members, but that amendment failed Thursday.
    Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025

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