Thesaurus results for TAKE-HOME PAY

take-home pay

noun

Definition of take-home pay

as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples of take-home pay The union says that, as a result, some production assistants on Chicago Fire saw their weekly take-home pay dip 43 percent. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026 Doubles champions also get a pay bump of 10%, making their take-home pay £760,000 (just over $1 million). — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 12 July 2026 The rising cost of housing is squeezing Americans’ take-home pay, and a major cause of the problem is overregulation. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 9 July 2026 Neither is their spouses' income, which in the case of the chief justice, for instance, likely far exceeds his take-home pay. — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 8 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for take-home pay

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Noun

Bottoms called for raising the minimum wage for state employees and creating a path to free technical and community college.

— Christopher Harris, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
Continue reading … -- POLITICS PRICE OF PROGRESS — States set to trigger fresh minimum wage hikes with pay floors more than double federal rate.

— , FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of minimum wage

Noun

The pilot found that workers were earning around 30 to 35 percent below a living wage benchmark, highlighting a challenge that often remains hidden within supply chains.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026
The coalition of more than 80 unions and various community groups is pushing for living wage jobs, new housing units and protections for immigrant workers.

— Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of living wage

Noun

New teachers get $3,000 on top of their base salary, bringing their total take-home pay to $53,159.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
If boosters can improve NIL salaries – Northwestern is said to have half of Ohio State's $50-$55M NIL budget – watch out.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of salary

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The teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles, in a memo to school board members, presented a counter interpretation and said the state team exaggerated the crisis and was implicitly faulting justified wage increases.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Astonishingly, a servant’s wages amounted to only $3,750 to $4,500 per year.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of wage

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Immigrant workmen gave up a pay envelope, schoolchildren put in pennies — upward of 150,000 people in all, each name and each donation noted by Pulitzer’s New York World, and almost each one under a dollar.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
Frustrated by the limits of collective bargaining, Reuther came to complain that bargaining, once so promising, had come to focus on just another nickel in the pay envelope.

— John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019

Definition of pay envelope

Noun

And while all public school educators receive supplemental pay through the property tax, just how much depends on their tenure.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
States have already started slashing caregivers’ pay and other critical disability services in anticipation of Medicaid cuts that will roll out next year.

— STAT, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026

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