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Recent Examples of take-home pay
Even if your income was below average in 2024, paying fewer taxes can still increase your net after-tax take-home pay.
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David Rae, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
What Rainwater proposes: Eliminate the state income tax and gasoline excise tax, among others, in order to increase Hoosiers' take-home pay.
—Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Oct. 2024
There were also significant differences in take-home pay, with employees in Bulgaria on €60,000 taking home the most net pay at €51,239 and those in Iceland the least, with just €30,525.
—Roger Trapp, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
At worst, the tax policy might even put a downward pressure on service sector wages by allowing employers to keep their workers’ baseline pay low because the tax cut could instead raise the workers’ take-home pay.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 13 Aug. 2024
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David Rae, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
What Rainwater proposes: Eliminate the state income tax and gasoline excise tax, among others, in order to increase Hoosiers' take-home pay.
—Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Oct. 2024
There were also significant differences in take-home pay, with employees in Bulgaria on €60,000 taking home the most net pay at €51,239 and those in Iceland the least, with just €30,525.
—Roger Trapp, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
At worst, the tax policy might even put a downward pressure on service sector wages by allowing employers to keep their workers’ baseline pay low because the tax cut could instead raise the workers’ take-home pay.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 13 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-home pay
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Cockburn said Saudi Arabia would need a vast number of migrant workers to deliver its World Cup ambitions in a country which has neither established a minimum wage for non-citizens nor introduced measures to prevent worker deaths.Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Sign up Other tax rises include a rise in capital gains tax from 10% to 18% for basic rate taxpayers and 20% to 24% for higher earners, as well as a national insurance hike for employers and a higher national minimum wage.Marc Shoffman, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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Our schools need better funding, and our direct support staff deserve living wages.Emily Harvey, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2024
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Add to this a clearer-than-ever bifurcation between first jobs that pay a living wage and appear to have career pathways and jobs that have one or the other or neither.Ryan Craig, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Lillard, though, compromised the Bucks’ defense while hurting the team’s ability to add depth because of his $54 million salary.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Noninterest expense increased to $13.7 million from $11.5 million, primarily due to higher salaries and employee benefits.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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Higher wage bills The government also announced that the national living wage would increase by 6.7% from April 2025 to £12.21 per hour.Marc Shoffman, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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On top of higher wages, the contract would allow workers to use $5,000 initially allocated for a retirement match to boost their ratification bonus, Axios' Nathan Bomey reports.Axios, Axios, 5 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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There was no more prep time, not many more takes, and not much more pay.James Grebey, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024
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This increase is primarily due to higher wages and benefits, variable incentive pay, and aircraft maintenance costs.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 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 22 Nov. 2024.
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