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Recent Examples of take-home pay
Despite higher inflation, take-home pay for Latino workers starting in 2022’s first quarter has averaged $284.30, a level almost 5% higher under Biden.
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Louis Jacobson, Austin American-Statesman, 10 July 2024
And the joy of having more take-home pay now would evaporate when the bills start coming due.
—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
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Louis Jacobson, Austin American-Statesman, 10 July 2024
And the joy of having more take-home pay now would evaporate when the bills start coming due.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
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That process is how Florida got its $15 minimum wage, medical marijuana and felon voter rights restoration.—
Romy Ellenbogen,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2025
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Florence Kelley was a social reformer who campaigned against child labor and for a minimum wage.—
Sara Georgini,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Jan. 2025
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On the income front, a growing number of companies are committing to paying their workers a living wage and helping to ensure fair wages in their supply chains.—
Kweilin Ellingrud,
Forbes,
15 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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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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All salary information via Spotrac and salary-cap information via RealGM.—
Bryan Toporek,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Back in Europe, private sector wages in the U.K. rose 6% in the three months to November, compared to the previous year, the Office for National Statistics said Tuesday.—
Ganesh Rao,Chloe Taylor,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
21 Jan. 2025
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During his tenure, the city increased its minimum hourly wage from around $10 per hour to $18 per hour in the 2025 budget.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 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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In 2023, Rodgers took a $34 million pay cut to help the team attract free agents to try and help win a championship.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2025
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This is an in-office position that receives night shift differential pay.—
Marcus D. Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
22 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 29 Jan. 2025.
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