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Recent Examples of take-home pay
Linda Jensen, founder of Heart Financial Group & Increase Business Profits, notes that provisions like eliminating federal income taxes on tips and overtime could increase take-home pay for younger workers, allowing more flexibility to contribute to Roth IRAs, HSAs, or other long-term vehicles.
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Alejandra Rojas, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
That’s because if workers’ take-home pay increases because of a tax cut, employers wouldn’t need to provide tipped workers a higher base-line wage.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 21 May 2025
For example, my company continuously calculates take-home pay, taxes, health care premiums, retirement contributions, and other withholdings for our customers and their employees, regardless of the duration between pay cycles.
—Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Start with your take-home pay (after taxes and deductions), then itemize essential expenses (housing, food, transportation, utilities, loan payments) and then account for your fun spending (eating out, entertainment, travel, streaming).
—Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
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Alejandra Rojas, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
That’s because if workers’ take-home pay increases because of a tax cut, employers wouldn’t need to provide tipped workers a higher base-line wage.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 21 May 2025
For example, my company continuously calculates take-home pay, taxes, health care premiums, retirement contributions, and other withholdings for our customers and their employees, regardless of the duration between pay cycles.
—Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Start with your take-home pay (after taxes and deductions), then itemize essential expenses (housing, food, transportation, utilities, loan payments) and then account for your fun spending (eating out, entertainment, travel, streaming).
—Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
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The unauthorized workers were paid below minimum wage and were not compensated for overtime, prosecutors said.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
19 July 2025
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Its signature Fight for $15 organizing effort in fast food restaurants, an industry notoriously difficult to unionize, got California lawmakers to mandate a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers in 2023.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
13 July 2025
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This fee goes directly to staff payroll and provides a living wage to our team.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
11 July 2025
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An uncomfortable truth is that many remaining U.S. garment workers earn a smaller share of a living wage than their counterparts in some of the countries where a lot of American clothing is made, such as Cambodia or Vietnam.—
Elizabeth Cline,
The Atlantic,
8 July 2025
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Across the board, these nations are balancing economic needs with domestic labour concerns by linking work visas to salary levels, labour shortages, and long-term integration strategies.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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There is no real accountability for the city’s significant investment and minimal returns, no salaries tied to performance, no end in sight for the yearly step increases and cost-of-living adjustments for every employee in the district — bloated central office staff included.—
Andrea Williams,
Nashville Tennessean,
26 July 2025
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Over 90% of the department's budget makes up personnel costs, including wages, benefits and pension contributions.—
Lillian Metzmeier,
The Courier-Journal,
22 July 2025
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To make Burns more compliant, Nixon aides planted untrue stories about Burns’ wanting a big salary increase while other wages had been frozen.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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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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That means a single mom waiting tables could take home an extra $1,300, while a utility worker putting in overtime after a storm won’t owe a dime on his extra pay.—
Michael Catanzaro,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 July 2025
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Lewis will receive all his remaining pay if he is terminated after Feb. 1, 2027.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 July 2025
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“Take-home pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take-home%20pay. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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