take-home pay
Example Sentences
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For someone on an average wage of about £35,000 per year buying a typical home, mortgage payments currently take up nearly 40% of their take home pay.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2024
The filing also disclosed Dotzauer earning more than $724,000 in take home pay over the past year, plus $63,000 in boat and car payments.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2023
"Since August my take home pay has halved. Weeks go by without construction materials arriving. Suppliers won't sell to me because they don't know what price to charge," Pieroni said.
From Reuters • Oct. 21, 2023
Since we moved in, my wife has gotten a higher paying job and I have gotten a raise, so if the rent increased $500/month it would still be at 30% of our take home pay.
From Slate • Apr. 8, 2022
Well, this conclusion is only valid for the static analysis, but in dynamics, take home pay is directly affected by regulations, while wage contracts are adjusted by quite different bargaining processes.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas
