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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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Why SECURE 2.0 Act Auto-Enrollment and Escalation Will Boost Employee Financial Well-Being

Griffin Benefits

contains dozens of changes to retirement plans, but perhaps none bigger than these two: New 401(k) and 403(b) plans will be required to automatically enroll participants in the respective plans, and employee salary deferral rates will automatically escalate each year. The SECURE Act 2.0

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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. Besides the fact that your employees use money that hasn’t been taxed to pay for these benefits, the payroll deductions for them also reduce their taxable income while raising take-home pay.

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Financial Wellness Series Part Four – Build, Educate & Engage: Financial Wellness Benefits

AssuredPartners

Tip: Consider auto-enrolling employees at a 6% default rate and running a 1% or 2% challenge program each year to help them increase savings with little impact on their take-home pay. Employer match , which has been proven to motivate participants to increase their 401(k) contributions. Auto-escalation.

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

Benefit Resource Inc.

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. “A big way my HSA helped me was to prepare for a 40% loss in income during maternity leave.

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September Jobs Report: Shifting Your Hotel’s Hiring Tactics

Hireology

Consider offering the following and make it known on your career site and job descriptions: A guaranteed number of hours to reduce pay uncertainty . Opt-in 401K enrollment plans to increase take-home pay. Programs to help with expenses like tuition or credit card bills .

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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.