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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. After all, you want to […] READ MORE.

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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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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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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. Flexible spending account.

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Choosing the best workplace pension for your business

Employee Benefits

Defined benefit pensions guarantee a specific retirement income based on factors like salary and length of service. Relief at Source pension contributions from your employee are taken after tax deduction. Net Pay contributions from your employees is deducted before tax. Which Tax Relief Method is Used?

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Top 5 reasons to check your payslip

cipHR

As head of payroll bureau services at CIPHR’s sister company PBS , a payroll software and service provider, Jon and his team process payroll and BACS salary payments for 94,000 employees, across 500 organisations every month. CIPHR asked payroll expert Jon Lee for some pointers. Some employers also top these payments up. Personal details.

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