It now appears that corporate America is getting spooked by the slowdown in take home pay.
Having just gone through a Christmas spending binge, they will find that their take home pay is down in January.
Moreover, lower take home pay has to translate into slower economic activity, and therefore lower sales and income for public companies.
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Slimmer government and more take home pay sounds all well and good.
Historically we would be experiencing a rebound in real estate, which accounted for up to 20% of take home pay from 2002 to 2007.
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So, according to the IFS, take home pay was buoyed by an injection from elsewhere - by significant transfers from the state, in the form of benefits and tax credits.
Taken together, these two measures show that the average small company employee is now working more to produce take home pay with the same buying power as before the recession.
There is reason to believe, as the IFS points out, that the big squeeze on real, average take home pay is only happening now, some considerable time after the official end of the recession.
In any given year, this family would be obligated to spend about 13% of their take home pay on medical costs before they could look to their insurance for help plus the sum they are paying in premium costs for the benefit of the catastrophic policy.
Since they can't pay the bills with so little take-home pay, they'll need to withdraw a comparable amount of money from their taxable-investments accounts.
And when it comes to our economy here at home, I know what it takes to create 12 million new jobs and rising take-home pay.
Employees may see less take-home pay "because their total compensation is increasing, from our perspective, " if they take health benefits, Mr. Stark says.
The union also says proposed changes to shift patterns would mean a reduction in take-home pay.
But the governor added real take-home pay should slowly start to increase next year.
Real take-home pay faces a sharp squeeze and the savings ratio is already very low.
The first involves take-home pay, which could be lower than expected for many workers.
According to the Nationwide, initial mortgage payments on a new loan currently represent about 25% of take-home pay.
This means that even those taxpayers earning less than the thresholds will experience a decrease in take-home pay.
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"This change resulted in a drastic reduction in their take-home pay, " McElroen added.
And bonuses, a crucial part of take-home pay, are around the lowest level since such records began in 1990.
That's how you increase take-home pay -- not by talking about it, but by implementing plans that do it.
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But Charles Harrity, GMB senior organiser, said the dispute was over "plans to make huge cuts to their take-home pay".
If Congress moves to raise tax rates for alternative asset managers, all it will do is cut their take-home pay packages.
Besides their diminishing take-home pay, the data suggested that US citizens were also worried that jobs were becoming harder to find.
Workers have already experienced a 2% average cut in their take-home pay, due to the expiry of the payroll tax holiday.
No more than 50% of your take-home pay should go toward your Essential Expenses , which include housing, transportation, groceries and utilities.
That is, if you squeeze an extra dollar of take-home pay out of your boss, 46 cents of it belongs to the college.
Perhaps most importantly, we will experience a manufacturing resurgence that delivers more jobs and more take-home pay for middle-class families across the country.
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He now sees only 1, 200 patients, but margins have jumped to 85%, translating into roughly the same take-home pay (which he won't disclose).
With take-home pay also weak, it is a mystery how buying power in the lower two-thirds of the American economy can be maintained.
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