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Recent Examples of take-home pay
Without the support, Wright-Oviedo said, her family would be spending $2,600 a month on child care, consuming at least half their take-home pay.
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Maya Huter, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
In eleven states and the District of Columbia, child care costs at least twice as much as typical monthly rent or mortgage payments, and two-thirds of parents nationwide report spending twenty per cent or more of their take-home pay on child care.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
The Illinois Restaurant Association predicts some diners will now tip less and lower take-home pay for restaurant employees.
—Kevin Bessler | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Sep. 2024
Even if your income was below average in 2024, paying fewer taxes can still increase your net after-tax take-home pay.
—David Rae, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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Maya Huter, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
In eleven states and the District of Columbia, child care costs at least twice as much as typical monthly rent or mortgage payments, and two-thirds of parents nationwide report spending twenty per cent or more of their take-home pay on child care.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
The Illinois Restaurant Association predicts some diners will now tip less and lower take-home pay for restaurant employees.
—Kevin Bessler | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Sep. 2024
Even if your income was below average in 2024, paying fewer taxes can still increase your net after-tax take-home pay.
—David Rae, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
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Buffalo, New York is the only city that comes even close due to the state's $15 minimum wage and the city's lower average rent.Karri Peifer, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024
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California voters also adopted a proposition that increases penalties for certain drug and theft crimes while rebuffing a measure to raise the state’s minimum wage to $18 an hour.Kate Rogers, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
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This year, however, the increase in Marin’s living wage won’t affect wages for IHSS workers because their union negotiated a new contract in June that increased the pay to $19 per hour.Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2024
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Throughout the nation, thousands of construction industry tax cheats fail to pay their workers fair living wages and rarely provide medical coverage, while also failing to pay federal, state, and local taxes, overtime, and workers’ compensation benefits.William C. Sproule, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024
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It's expected to bring 6,000 direct jobs with a median salary above $88,000.Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Roberts just won his second World Series in five years and is due a raise from his $4 million 2025 salary when his deal expires.Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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While the economy has been better in recent years, with higher wage growth, lower inflation, and more affordable goods, unemployment remains low and people’s retirement accounts are flush.Gregory J. Rummo, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2024
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Prices need to come down and wages/incomes need to go up for homebuyers to feel more comfortable jumping into homeownership.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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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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True to the contemporary definition of employment, Chiswick and Robinson’s method only includes the unreported workers who produced goods or services that indeed generated pay for the family, even if that income or employment was reported individually to the Census at the time.Tiana Lowe Doescher, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
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With the strike in its second week, the Culinary Workers Union is hoping to pressure Virgin Hotels Las Vegas to agree to a new five-year contract with higher pay and better benefits for workers.Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Take-home pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take-home%20pay. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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