take-home pay

noun

Definition of take-home paynext
as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples of take-home pay While decreasing taxes would deliver immediate benefits with more take-home pay, housing would take an approximate two-three years to build and provide long-term lasting relief. — Linh Tat, Oc Register, 6 May 2026 Their money had gone into a cozy Craftsman house in Menlo Park, and repaying medical-school debt and the salary for their nanny ate up the majority of Greenwald’s take-home pay. — Melanie Thernstrom, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 Tools such as the ADP Salary Paycheck Calculator can help graduates estimate their take-home pay after taxes and common payroll deductions. — Vanessa Duplessie, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 The median household income in Valparaiso is $69,872, leading to take-home pay of around $1,100 per week after federal income and FICA taxes. — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for take-home pay
Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
  1. minimum wage
  2. living wage
  3. salary
  4. wage
  5. pay envelope
  6. pay
Noun
  • Gonzales ran with a platform decisively to the left, supporting Medicare-for-all, raising the minimum wage and cracking down on junk fees.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Candidates at Tuesday’s forum largely focused on affordability and education, often agreeing with each other on matters like increasing the federal minimum wage and the need for access to quality affordable housing.
    — Raisa Habersham July 1, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
Definition of minimum wage
Noun
  • California is tops in the nation for average teacher salary at $103,552; EPI sets a living wage in the state at $73,311.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Additionally, the brand’s Living Wage Program, a supply chain initiative that assesses living wage benchmarks based on regional costs of living, continued with eight suppliers.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 1 June 2026
Definition of living wage
Noun
  • No one expects Moreno to spend like the Dodgers do (and even Walter’s fellow owners want a salary cap in an attempt to stop the Dodgers).
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • That adds up to just $15,080 a year, based on a standard 40-hour workweek—less than a third of the average American’s salary of around $60,000 yearly.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 July 2026
Definition of salary
Noun
  • Over the past decade, home prices have risen much faster than wages.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • For this calculation, the institutional research department compared UC graduates’ earnings to out-of-pocket costs for their degrees and the opportunity costs of forgone wages of high school graduates of the same age.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of wage
Noun
  • Immigrant workmen gave up a pay envelope, schoolchildren put in pennies — upward of 150,000 people in all, each name and each donation noted by Pulitzer’s New York World, and almost each one under a dollar.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Frustrated by the limits of collective bargaining, Reuther came to complain that bargaining, once so promising, had come to focus on just another nickel in the pay envelope.
    — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019
Definition of pay envelope
Noun
  • Advocates say clinics spend too much on executive pay and other administrative costs and not enough on patient care.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • His government also points to shrinking the gender pay gap and boosting support for women’s reproductive health.
    — Chad de Guzman, Time, 6 July 2026
Definition of pay

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“Take-home pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take-home%20pay. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

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