Gross pay is what you earn. Take-home pay is what is left after tax.
Aunt Rosa's pay slip shows how her pay was worked out. It starts with the hours and the rate: 8 hours at 5 coins an hour.
Hours times the rate is her gross pay, everything earned before anything is taken out: 8 × 5 = 40 coins.
Tax is a share every worker pays the town. It keeps up the roads, the school, the park and the library. Anything taken out of pay is a deduction.
What is left is take-home pay, also called net pay. It is what really arrives, so Rosa plans her week with it.
These are some of the questions on the sets. The printable sheets have more and an answer key.
40 coins. 8 × 5 = 40.
34 coins. 40 − 6 = 34.
Take-home pay. Take-home pay is what really arrives.
42 coins. 50 − 8 = 42.
With a grown-up, look at a pay slip, with private numbers covered. Find gross pay and take-home pay.
If you can, look at a real pay slip together with the private numbers covered, and find the gross line and the take-home line. Nothing here asks about your family's pay.
