take-home pay

noun

Definition of take-home paynext
as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples of take-home pay 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 Inflation outpaced the rate of wage gains for the second consecutive months, eating away at the purchasing power of take-home pay for many Americans. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 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 That means take-home pay often remains low. — Julia Bowling, The Conversation, 29 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
  • Several of those states also adjust their minimum wages for inflation, so California is not guaranteed to have the nation's highest rate once 2027 wages are set.
    — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • In California, national chain franchise workers are paid $20 per hour after a law went into effect in 2024 establishing future minimum wage increases and employment standards for the fast food industry.
    — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of minimum wage
Noun
  • Maybe that means hiring full-time refs and paying them a living wage.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of living wage
Noun
  • None of these savings will be passed on to you, and a salary cap does not guarantee your team has a better chance to win.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Such a $7 million giveback by LaVine, 31, however, still would have left the Kings on the hook for $42 million to pay LaVine to walk away, as opposed to holding on to his salary for potential use in a trade.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of salary
Noun
  • There’s often debate about whether AI is used by employers to increase productivity among its workforce or cut wage costs, according to Brian Justie, a senior research analyst with the UCLA Labor Center.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026
  • With wages barely keeping up with inflation, households have been tapping savings and saving less to maintain spending, a situation that economists said could not continue indefinitely.
    — Lucia Mutikani, USA Today, 30 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
  • Overeem also recalls being released after refusing a 50% pay cut, highlighting a lack of personal relationship with White.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar lost another 241,000 pay-TV subscribers in the second quarter, compared to a decrease of 261,000 in the same period of 2025.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 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 4 Aug. 2026.

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