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SALARIO NETO [1 record]

Record 1 2009-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
DEF

The remainder of a person's gross salary or wages after deductions usually at the source of salary payment of such items as income tax withholding, retirement insurance payments, and union dues.

OBS

actual wage: term used synonymously with real wages [and] also used to define ... take-home pay ... The term offers little in usefulness and might well be set aside in favor of the more clearly understood terms "real wages" ... or "take-home pay".

OBS

actual wage: term most often used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • net wage
  • actual wages

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)
DEF

Somme d'argent reçue effectivement par un salarié après que son employeur a déduit, de son salaire brut, les retenues ou précomptes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Remuneración (Gestión del personal)
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