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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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In Johnson County, the hourly living wage goes up to $27.05.Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025
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Officials said many employees earn between $12.50 per hour and $19 per hour, far below the average living wage for a single person without children in the area.Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2024
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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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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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In 2024, wages beyond $168,600 were not taxed for Social Security.Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
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Guehi, given his impressive progress at Palace and rise to become a regular starter for England, projects on his next contract to potentially be one of the higher earners in the first-team wage structure that Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital have implemented in the last two years.Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 10 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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California's department of corrections says individuals who are part of this program are there voluntarily and are paid between $5.80 and $10.24 per day, with additional pay provided during emergencies and in other circumstances.Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
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What does the federal budget pay for? More than two million civilians are working in the federal government today, data from the White House reveals.Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 9 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 21 Jan. 2025.
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