Income

Income

Income is the consumption and savings opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, that is generally expressed in monetary terms. However, for households and individuals, "income is the sum of all the wages, salaries, profits, interests payments, rents and other forms of earnings received... in a given period of time."

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    I know everybody’s income and what everybody earns,
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    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

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