Most Americans I know can’t stand filing their taxes, much less paying them. US tax regulations are complicated. Calculating the right amount of taxes is difficult. Many taxpayers seek help from tax professionals or tax software. However, there are times when all you need is a good estimate of the taxes you’ll have to pay …
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Most Americans I know can’t stand filing their taxes, much less paying them. US tax regulations are complicated. Calculating the right amount of taxes is difficult. Many taxpayers seek help from tax professionals or tax software. However, there are times when all you need is a good estimate of the taxes you’ll have to pay …
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Most Americans I know can’t stand filing their taxes, much less paying them. US tax regulations are complicated. Calculating the right amount of taxes is difficult. Many taxpayers seek help from tax professionals or tax software. However, there are times when all you need is a good estimate of the taxes you’ll have to pay …
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Most Americans I know can’t stand filing their taxes, much less paying them. US tax regulations are complicated. Calculating the right amount of taxes is difficult. Many taxpayers seek help from tax professionals or tax software. However, there are times when all you need is a good estimate of the taxes you’ll have to pay …
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There is a difference between financial dreams and financial goals for college students. Research has shown that setting S.M.A.R.T. goals increases the chances you achieve them. SMART stands for specific + measurable + achievable + realistic + time-based. Before we talk about the SMART method of goal setting, we need to talk about how different …
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As I wrote about before, budgeting for college should include two budgets. One budget for the overall cost estimate of earning a college degree and the other is a monthly budget of expenses. The overall project budget is your guide if you can afford college. This you should consider, whether your parents will pay for …
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What are valuable budgeting skills for students? Earning a college degree requires two connected budgets. You need skills to draw up a project budget for the full 4-year term. Furthermore, you need to create a monthly budget. Tracking and maintaining the budgets is an essential skill you will need. Your project budget’s purpose is to …
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A college education is not for the faint of heart. The sticker price of a 4-year college education in a private school is on average $53,949 a year, well over 200 thousand dollars. Here is a list of college expenses you need to budget for attending college. Tuition Room and Board Textbooks School Supplies (incl. …
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A household has expenses that need to be funded by its members jointly. Creating a household budget is important because it shows where the money goes and how it is funded. A household budget can be different from a family budget. If members of the household are not part of the family, they are unlikely …
A personal budget is essential to control your money and not let your money control your emotions and happiness. It helps you to balance your income and spending with your needs. With a budget, you feel secure about your long-term financial goals. You want a personal budget if you live as a single or widow/widower. …
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Budgeting is an essential skill to achieve your academic and financial goals. Academically, you want to earn your degree. Financially, you want to put on as little debt as possible. The skill to learn is to control your money and not let your money control you. A budget is a tool to plan what you …
Budgeting for anything fosters planning and accountability with money. The importance of budgeting is to control the flow of money in a household, project, or business. Having a budget prevents overspending, as well as unplanned liabilities and debt. Learning with a budget A financial budget helps you to learn your spending habits. Simply listing the …
Through budgeting, family members agree on a plan for income, expenses, and savings. The family budget is important for everyone to only spend money within the plan’s limits. This prevents overspending and keeps family finances balanced. One important attribute of a good family budget is transparency. Communicating income levels and spending budgets as well as …
Creating and keeping a budget plan is not without effort and you better have a good reason for doing so. The main goal of using a personal budget is to balance your income with your expenses so that you can manage your savings and debt responsibly. The golden rule of personal budgeting is to keep …
If you work as a engineer, information security analyst, or general operations manager you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $49/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $49 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $49 an hour you’ll have an income of …
If you work as a electrical engineer, atmospheric and space scientist, or material scientist you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $48/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $48 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $48 an hour you’ll have an income …
If you work as a data scientist, veterinarian, or material scientist you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $47/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $47 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $47 an hour you’ll have an income of $97,760 a …
If you work as a organizational psychologist, transportation manager, art director, or administrative law judge you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $46/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $46 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $46 an hour you’ll have an …
If you work as a environmental engineer, geoscientist, statistician, or police detective you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $44/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $44 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $44 an hour you’ll have an income of $91,520 …
If you work as a mechanical engineer, physical therapist, or medical scientist you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $43/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $43 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $43 an hour you’ll have an income of $89,440 …
If you work as a education administrator, management analyst, civil engineer, computer programmer, or personal financial advisor you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $42/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $42 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $42 an hour you’ll …
If you work as a biological scientist, geographer, genetic counselor, sociologist, operations research analyst, or occupational therapist you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $41/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $41 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $41 an hour you’ll …
If you work as a civil engineering technician, mortician and undertaker, drafter, tool and die maker, or commercial diver you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $26/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $26 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $26 an …
If you work as a plumber, health education specialists, food service manager, electrician, camera operator, millwright, or judicial law clerk you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $27/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $27 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $27 …
If you work as a mechanical drafter, property appraiser, telecommunication line installer, plant operator, taper, fundraiser, or crane operator you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $28/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $28 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $28 an …
If you work as a real estate broker, forensic technician, wellhead pumper, librarian, court reporter, or radiologic technologist you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $29/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $29 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $29 an hour …
If you work as a insulation worker, postal service clerk, bus and truck mechanic, statistical assistant, or geological technician you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $24/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $24 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $24 an …
If you work as a derrick operator, bailiff, school social worker, licensed practical nurse, legal secretary, or real estate sales agent you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $23/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $23 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of …
If you work as a machinist, bus driver, glazier, credit counselor, payroll clerk, or plasterer and stucco mason you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $22/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $22 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $22 an hour …
If you work as a financial examiner, life scientist, architect, or acupuncturist you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $39/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $39 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $39 an hour you’ll have an income of $81,120 …
If you work as a chemist, clinical psychologist, or speech-language pathologist you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $38/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $38 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $38 an hour you’ll have an income of $79,040 a …
If you work as a dental hygienist, ship captain, web developer, animator, postmaster, or budget analyst you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $37/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $37 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $37 an hour you’ll have …
If you work as a credit analyst, registered nurse, fashion designer, diagnostic medical sonographer, ship engineer, or producer and director you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $36/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $36 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $36 …
If you work as a chiropractor, lighting technician, compliance officer, or locomotive engineer you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $34/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $34 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $34 an hour you’ll have an income of …
If you work as a subway operator, healthcare practitioner, prosthetist, or landscape architect you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $33/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $33 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $33 an hour you’ll have an income of …
If you work as a cost estimator, instructional coordinator, writers and author, electronic technician, or video editor you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $32/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $32 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $32 an hour you’ll …
If you work as a fire inspector, financial services sales agent, musician and singer, computer network specialist, surveyor, or archeologist you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $31/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $31 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $31 …
If you work as a housekeeper, maid, or pedicurist, you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $9/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $9 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $9 an hour you’ll have an income of $18,720 a year. This …
If you work as a hotel desk clerk, ski patrol, or parking lot attendant, you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $8/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $8 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $8 an hour you’ll have an income …
Have you been offered a job that pays 7 dollars an hour? Now you want to know how much this will be over a year or each month?” If you earn a wage of $7 an hour you’ll have an income of $14,560 a year. This estimate is based on working full time, 40 hours …
If you work as a rehabilitation counselor, machine setters and operator, vending machine servicer, automotive glass installer, new accounts clerk, printing press operator, construction laborer, ophthalmic medical technician, or animal control worker you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $18/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $18 an hour is how much a year …
If you work as a billing and posting clerk, self-enrichment teacher, metal pourer and caster, semiconductor processing technician, animal breeder, or dispatcher you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $19/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $19 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage …
If you work as a metal worker, order clerk, medical assistant, human service assistant, watchmaker, or phlebotomist you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $17/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $17 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $17 an hour you’ll …
If you work as a religious worker, pipefitter and steamfitter, electricians helper, file clerk, print binding worker, or data entry keyer you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $16/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $16 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of …
If you work as a Floral Designer, Farmworker, Pharmacy Aid, Baker, Tour and Travel Guide, or Funeral Attendant you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $14/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $14 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $14 an hour …
If you work as a bellhop, home health aid, retail salesperson, parking attendant, hairstylist, and cosmetologist, or ambulance driver, you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $13/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $13 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $13 an …
If you work as a production worker, animal trainer, plasterer, or stucco mason, model, preschool teacher, or barber you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $15/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $15 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $15 an hour …
If you work in home-based phone sales, phone customer support, or as virtual assistants, you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $10/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $10 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $10 an hour you’ll have an income …
If you work as a bartender, lifeguard, cashier, childcare worker, or food server in outside restaurants, you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $12/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $12 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $12 an hour you’ll have …
If you work as a waitress, gambling dealer, fast food and counter worker, or shampooer, you can make a median hourly wage of approximately $11/hour. You ask yourself “Getting paid $11 an hour is how much a year or how much a month?” If you earn a wage of $11 an hour you’ll have an …
