take-home pay
See also: takehome pay
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- The net earnings of a salary or wage earner.
- Their take-home pay was half their gross, but fifteen percent was for retirement.
- 2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian[1]:
- A new book called When Nothing Works shows which groups have enjoyed the biggest rise in take-home pay since the turn of the millennium. From Tony Blair to Boris Johnson, the authors discover one golden rule: the richer you are, the more money you’re given.
Translations
[edit]net earnings of a wage earner
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