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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

Options can include: Health insurance, Voluntary benefits premiums (like vision and dental), Life insurance, 401(k), and. Flexible spending account. A cafeteria plan is especially attractive because it lets them choose which benefits they want.

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

Benefit Resource Inc.

Even with health insurance, labor and delivery can cost around $5,000, and without insurance, it can be upwards of $40,000. 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.

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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

They can range from health insurance coverage to retirement plans, flexible spending accounts, transportation benefits, education assistance, and more. By reducing the taxable portion of their income, employees can effectively increase their take-home pay. Let's explore some of the most common ones: 1.

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

Genesis HR Solutions

Tax-preferred plans: Health flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, health reimbursement accounts, transportation accounts, and more. 401(k) and retirement plans. The most expensive benefit to offer is health insurance. This could have a dramatic impact on the cost of health insurance.