take-home pay
Example Sentences
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Joe Makin, 23, earns £22,000 a year working in admin and says almost two thirds of his take home pay is eaten up by rent and bills.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2024
"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
“We are hearing that there has been a decrease in workers’ take home pay, and that’s due to cutting in overtime hours,” Foxvog said of garment workers specifically.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2022
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
