take-home pay

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   what is left of your pay after deductions for taxes and dues and insurance etc

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Questions about take-home pay

What does take-home pay mean?

take-home pay means "what is left of your pay after deductions for taxes and dues and insurance etc".

Is take-home pay a common word?

take-home pay is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.