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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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International competition must force the league to be better, teams to invest more and salary caps and transfer fee limits to be raised.—
Emily Olsen,
The Athletic,
28 Jan. 2025
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If Rodgers retires or is released, the Jets must eat a $49 million salary cap charge.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
27 Jan. 2025
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Over the past 45 years, the U.S. economy has doubled in size and American workers have grown 81% more productive while their wages have only grown 29%, according to the Economic Policy Institute .—
Adam Chandler,
TIME,
21 Jan. 2025
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While La Liga, the Bundesliga, and Serie A have a reasonably wealthy sub-elite outside the superclubs, who can afford to offer some players significant wages, French clubs lack that flexibility.—
Jacob Whitehead,
The Athletic,
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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Meanwhile, the University of Utah’s Han said data shows that there’s a strong correlation between teachers’ pay, teachers’ morale, and student performance.—
Ikram Mohamed,
Chicago Tribune,
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 31 Jan. 2025.
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