Thesaurus results for TAKE-HOME PAY

take-home pay

noun

Definition of take-home pay

as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples of take-home pay Bigger paychecks sought While the economy may be showing signs of acceleration, stubborn inflation has eroded Americans’ take-home pay. — Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026 There’s also another, less perceptible way higher healthcare costs erode take-home pay. — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026 The 50/30/20 rule is a budgeting framework that divides your take-home pay into three categories. — Javier Simon, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026 The union says that, as a result, some production assistants on Chicago Fire saw their weekly take-home pay dip 43 percent. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for take-home pay

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Noun

During his two terms, from 2002 to 2006, Brazil saw rising employment, a higher minimum wage and a major expansion of consumer power among poorer Brazilians, according to Brazil’s official census.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026
An earlier lawsuit by a former cheerleader had accused the Cowboys of paying her less than minimum wage.

— Rob Wile, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of minimum wage

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The union is demanding a 4% increase in pay for staff earning above a living wage, for the V&A to become an accredited London living-wage employer within 12 months, and time-and-a-half pay for work done on bank holidays.

— News Desk, Artforum, 27 Oct. 2026
The mayor and the Council are ready to help with retraining and real jobs that carry a living wage and benefits.

— Al Sharpton, New York Daily News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of living wage

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Opinion polls predict tight race Domestically, Vucic has pledged higher pensions and public sector salaries, investment in state healthcare and subsidies for young couples.

— Reuters, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2026
The players and their union vow to keep it that way, and union chief Bruce Meyer said every proposal the owners make on every issue is contingent upon a salary cap.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of salary

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Iceland, long a leader in gender equality, subsidizes childcare, legislates equal wages, gives paid parental leave to both men and women, and has a gender equality act that includes a quota for women on boards.

— Christine Ledbetter, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
The president has touted billions of dollars in federal investment projects as evidence of prosperity and pointed to rising wages in the manufacturing sector as evidence of an economic turnaround.

— Amy L. Wong, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of wage

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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

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