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Your Guide to Take-home Pay

Patriot Software

After you subtract all of the taxes and other deductions, money left over is considered take-home pay. Read on to learn more about what is take-home pay and how to calculate it. What is take home pay? Take-home pay may also be called net pay.

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How to Calculate Net Pay for Payroll

Patriot Software

Employee salary: $50,000 a year. Between taxes and benefit deductions, the employee’s take-home pay could be far from the $50,000 sticker price (cue the sad violin). To find their take-home pay, you need to know how to calculate net pay. But you know that’s not what they’re walking away with.

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Currys increases salary for 10,000 staff and boosts minimum pay rates

Employee Benefits

The retailer has additionally increased minimum pay rates , which will rise to £11.50 Over the past three years, Currys has increased its minimum hourly pay by 29%. This increase in take-home pay will mean that the annual earnings of an employee who works 20 hours a week will have risen by nearly £2,700 over the three-year period.

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HR How-to: Discuss Salary During An Interview

Abel HR

And then they ask about salary and it’s as if all the air has been sucked out of the room. After all, why take the hiring process further if you have vastly disparate ideas for how the position should be rewarded? Will they be making their preferred salary in six months to a year?

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Employees and Employers Save with Cafeteria Plans

InterWest Insurance Services

These cafeteria plans, which are governed by Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Service Code, allow your employees to withhold a portion of their pre-tax salary to cover certain medical or childcare expenses. Employees can save an average of 30% in federal, state and local taxes on items they already pay for out of pocket.

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Cost of living forcing people to seek out sources of extra income

Workplace Insight

In efforts to increase their take-home pay, 77 percent of employees see the opportunity to work overtime or extra shifts. Outside of their current job, 35 percent have looked for jobs with higher salaries, and 34 percent of workers have looked for a second job.

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Flexible Benefit Plans Give Employees More Options

InterWest Insurance Services

Employers fund these flexible benefit plans with funds that are deducted from their employees’ salaries on a pre-tax basis. Since the salary reductions are not received by the employee, they are not considered wages for income tax purposes. This is great since one size does not fit all in the world of employee benefits.