How to Use disposable income in a Sentence

disposable income

noun

• Furthermore, the global cost-of-living crisis has reduced many consumers’ disposable income.
  — Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
• Good wine is generally more expensive than beer or spirits, and millennials notably have less disposable income, less job security and more student loan debt than their parents did.
  — Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 9 Apr. 2024
• How about using some of that disposable income to do things with those children who moved across country with you.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• Yet the biggest benefits (in every sense of the word) are too often limited to those with the most means and disposable income.
  — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2023
• Under this plan, the payment will be 10% of disposable income for those who qualify.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2023
• This is a select group—early adopters with disposable income and access to plenty of doctors.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
• Young people suddenly had free time and disposable income in the post-war period, and catchy hits by The Beach Boys channeled the carefree attitude of the times.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 20 June 2024
• With that in mind, there’s the knowledge that a larger proportion of disposable income is spent on experiences and, of course, top of that list is travel.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Still, amid the sacrifices many are making to ensure there’s a social safety net in the country, there are those with disposable income who can invest.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• As the cost of credit card debt and mortgages fall, consumers’ disposable income increases.
  — Indy Guha, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• The share of disposable income put away as savings stood at 3.8% in the three-month period ending in September, down from 5.2% in the previous quarter.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• American women, then newly equipped with jobs and disposable income en masse, became part of the consumer class.
  — Zara Khan, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• Now the primary users are from Gen Z, a younger — and smaller — demographic with less disposable income.
  — J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• But much of the gains are from investments that climbed alongside stock markets and largely don’t translate into disposable income.
  — Brian Cheung, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2024
• Hostels exist for a reason, to open up the possibilities of travel to young adults with little to no disposable income.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The economist pointed out that household debt service payments as a percentage of disposable income were just 9.6% in the first quarter.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 21 June 2023
• There is no reason why some of our disposable income shouldn’t go into startup and scaleup companies.
  — Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Less disposable income means young people may be more inclined to stay at home or explore nearby locations.
  — Kathleen Benoza, CNN, 19 Feb. 2023
• Less disposable income and the Federal Reserve’s steep interest-rate hikes to curb inflation dampened consumer demand and drove down new home sales in 2022 to the lowest in four years.
  — Anu Raghunathan, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• If Meta tracks the browsing habits of every adult user, except those who cough up €10 or more a month, then aspects of online privacy are out of reach for people without disposable income.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
• There’s the hysteria over players’ use of cocaine, a drug popular among many people with disposable income in the ’70s and ’80s, which somehow terrified and enraged the league and the media when rich Black guys were indulging.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• Specifically, the amount would be lowered from 10% of your disposable income to 5%, and less income would be classified as disposable.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Real disposable income grew again in March, marking nine consecutive months of gains, Yaros noted.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
• That suggests some households that receive refunds may be squeezed for disposable income, and thus face more financial pressures — which could cause that extra money to be swept up in current needs rather than long-term goals.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
• With fewer dollars flowing outward last month, consumers were able to sock away more money: The rate of savings as a percentage of disposable income rose to 4.6%, an increase of 0.3 percentage points from April.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 30 June 2023
• Armed with disposable income, AFOLs have turned collecting high-end sets and mini-figures into a booming online business.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
• There is a measure by which an apples-to-apples comparison can be made: personal disposable income per capita.
  — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
• For many families, this causes a significant drain on their finances, with some people in the U.S. spending nearly 14% of their disposable income on diapers.
  — Madison Medeiros, Parents, 23 Oct. 2023
• Which means doctors work in one of the few industries where demand is not necessarily determined by disposable income.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• They’re not designed with working professionals in mind, but rather affluent travelers who have the luxury of free time and ample disposable income.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2024