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Recent Examples of take-home pay
And the joy of having more take-home pay now would evaporate when the bills start coming due.
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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
That would be a quarter of Patterson’s take-home pay, almost twice what consumer finance experts recommend.
—Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, 12 Sep. 2024
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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
That would be a quarter of Patterson’s take-home pay, almost twice what consumer finance experts recommend.
—Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, 12 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
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Many teachers are on the minimum wage of $225 a month and are forced to take on extra work such as cleaning just to survive.—
David Hambling,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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Flagstaff, Arizona, now has a minimum wage of $17.85, for example, and Seattle has a minimum wage of $20.76.—
Gili Malinsky,
CNBC,
7 Jan. 2025
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On the income front, a growing number of companies are committing to paying their workers a living wage and helping to ensure fair wages in their supply chains.—
Kweilin Ellingrud,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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In Johnson County, the hourly living wage goes up to $27.05.—
Natalie Wallington,
Kansas City Star,
3 Jan. 2025
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What is coming is a salary cap, revenue sharing, some structure, but until then boosters with means who want to spend it on their favorite team still can blow their money like a sailor on leave.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Jan. 2025
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All salary information via Spotrac and salary-cap information via RealGM.—
Bryan Toporek,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Over the past 45 years, the U.S. economy has doubled in size and American workers have grown 81% more productive while their wages have only grown 29%, according to the Economic Policy Institute .—
Adam Chandler,
TIME,
21 Jan. 2025
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Back in Europe, private sector wages in the U.K. rose 6% in the three months to November, compared to the previous year, the Office for National Statistics said Tuesday.—
Ganesh Rao,Chloe Taylor,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
21 Jan. 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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Meanwhile, the University of Utah’s Han said data shows that there’s a strong correlation between teachers’ pay, teachers’ morale, and student performance.—
Ikram Mohamed,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2025
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This is an in-office position that receives night shift differential pay.—
Marcus D. Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Take-home pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take-home%20pay. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.
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