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Disposable Income

The money you make (gross income) minus expenses and taxes; i.e., all the money you have leftover after you buy/pay for everything you need to buy/pay for.

Basically, the stuff you have left over to spend on clothes, concert tickets, and beeswax body lotion if you live in Brooklyn.

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