take-home pay
noun
: income remaining from salary or wages after deductions (as for income-tax withholding)
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At worst, the tax policy might even put a downward pressure on service sector wages by allowing employers to keep their workers’ baseline pay low because the tax cut could instead raise the workers’ take-home pay.
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Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 21 May 2025
Disposable pay generally means your take-home pay after mandatory deductions.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
In sum, while many workers would welcome extra take-home pay, the broader impacts of these tax proposals are complex.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
With most of the executive compensation in the form of stock and options, the actual take-home pay can vary, depending largely on the company’s share price.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025
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Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 21 May 2025
Disposable pay generally means your take-home pay after mandatory deductions.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
In sum, while many workers would welcome extra take-home pay, the broader impacts of these tax proposals are complex.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
With most of the executive compensation in the form of stock and options, the actual take-home pay can vary, depending largely on the company’s share price.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for take-home pay
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“Take-home pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take-home%20pay. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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