Dictionary
disposable income
personal income after tax, which can be spent on necessities, or non-essentials, or be saved
She has a disposable income of three thousand dollars a month after tax.
Phrase Bank
- When disposable income is suddenly not so disposable, people are going to cut back on things.
- The average American spends 10 percent of their disposable income on food under the current program.
- High-wage earners now have so much disposable income that they are pulling up prices for everyone.