How Does Gross Income Differ From Net Income?

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Chip Stapleton explains that gross income is your total earnings before deductions, while net income—your take-home pay—is what’s left after taxes, insurance, and other withholdings.

Video Transcript

Gross income differs from net income in a few ways. Gross income is, for most people, your salary.

That's you work for a company, you sell labor, your services to that company, you get paid one hundred thousand dollars a year. That's your gross income. Or if you have side hustles, that adds to your gross If you have investments that kick off dividends, if you own your own business, all that revenue then turns into your income or whatever you pay yourself out of that company turns into your income. Net income for an individual, that's going to be what kind of gets deposited into your bank account every single month, every two weeks, however you get paid.

So that's going be after all of your deductions. That's going to be after health insurance, it's to be after whatever taxes are withheld. That's what's going come into your bank account. You can kind of equate it to your take home pay.

And then from there that's what's going to allow you to pay your bills, live your life, and have the fun that you want to have.