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If You’re Paid Biweekly, You’ll Probably Get an Extra Paycheck in 2020

HR Digest

For example, if you make $50,000 a year, your biweekly gross pay over 26 pay periods is $1,923.07, minus any deductions like health insurance, 401(k) contributions and taxes. But in a year with 27 pay periods, your biweekly gross pay would be $1,851.85 – a reduction of $71.22 (3.7%) per pay period.

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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. Options can include: Health insurance, Voluntary benefits premiums (like vision and dental), Life insurance, 401(k), and. Flexible spending account.

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Having a Baby? Use Your Pre-Tax Funds to Save

Benefit Resource Inc.

Switch to a high-deductible health plan. Since we had contributed pre-tax to our HSA before birth our take home pay was lower. When partnered with the standard 401(k) plan, you could end up with two powerful retirement funds. Let’s Start from the Beginning. Set a monthly saving goal and stick to it.

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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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9 Nontaxable Employee Benefits for Maximizing Your Income and Workplace Satisfaction

Empuls

tax free benefits are those that provide financial advantages for both employees and employers by avoiding certain taxes and deductions. Non taxable employee benefits refer to various perks and incentives provided by employers that are exempt from certain taxes and deductions.

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Understanding the cost of employee benefits & what it means for your company

Genesis HR Solutions

401(k) and retirement plans. Deductions must be set up in payroll and carrier invoices must be paid each month. When deductions aren’t added to employees’ paychecks in time, the employer assumes all the additional cost. This can help employees see things they may not consider when they think of just take-home pay.