take-home pay
- noun
- /ˈteɪkˌhoʊm peɪ/
- 'I've worked here three years, ten months, and my take-home pay is $94.70 a week.
- monthly take-home pay
- percent of take-home pay
- more take-home pay
You don't get to spend your entire salary, you spend your take home pay, your net pay.
- You don't get to spend your entire salary, you spend your take home pay, your net pay.
- So they know that these EVs signal less working hours for them, less money, less take home pay.
- If not, they'll backdate it, but you will have more money in your take home pay as a result of this change, but it's not going to be massive.
Examples
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At the center of that sales pitch: higher take-home pay for all Americans.
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What's the take-home pay after tax?
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Nobody's take home pay will be less than it is now as a result of this policy.
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And in the end, what do you really have in take-home pay?
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You don't get to spend your entire salary, you spend your take home pay, your net pay.
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According to our standard formula, you should save at least 15% of your take-home pay.
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Is your take-home pay a larger percentage than it was four years ago?
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I actually came up with a savings rate of somewhere around 35% of my take-home pay, depending on the month.
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Meanwhile, the rising cost of employer-sponsored health insurance has squeezed take-home pay for most U.S. workers at the same time as median wages have stagnated and income inequality has increased.
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Many employees are unhappy with their take-home pay after taxes are deducted from their gross salary.
Synonyms
Money you receive for work or services
A regular fixed payment from an employer to an employee, usually monthly
Money an employee gets for work, often given by check
The money a worker gets for work, often in an envelope
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
take-home + pay
The phrase literally describes the pay you 'take home'—the money you actually bring home after deductions—so its meaning is directly derivable from the constituents 'take', 'home', and 'pay'. This compositional, descriptive pattern is transparent and likely inferable by a B1 learner who knows the individual words.
Etymology
The noun take-home pay comes from the simple picture of the money you can take home after taxes and other costs are taken out. That's why it means the amount 'you actually get' to spend.