Personal Finance On-Demand PD - Standard 1: Earning Income

This comprehensive on-demand personal finance professional development will equip you with the content knowledge to teach Standard 1: Earning Income.

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Course curriculum

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2. How to navigate this on-demand professional development
3. Before we begin...
1. Standard 4-1 (Much of this content is in Earning Income 12-4)
2. Summary of 4-1
1. Standard 4-2 (Much of this content is in 12-3 & 12-4)
2. Summary of 4-2
1. Standard 4-3
2. Wages, Salaries, Commissions, and Tips
3. Labor/Leisure Tradeoff
1. Standard 4-4
2. Famous Entrepreneurs
3. A 12-Year-Old Boy’s Ice Cream Stand Gets Shut Down, But His Entrepreneurial Spirit Persists
1. Standard 4-5
2. Standard 4-5 Summary
3. Airbnb
4. Turo
5. Swimply
1. Standard 4-6
2. Reasons for Gifting Money to Others
3. Economist's Christmas
1. Standard 4-7
2. Cost of Local Government Services
3. 4 Types of Goods
4. A Deeper Look at Public Goods
1. Standard 8-1 (This content is also covered in Earning Income 4-1, 4-2, 12-3, & 12-4)
2. Summary of 8-1
3. How Often Do People Change Jobs?
1. Standard 8-2 (This content is also covered in Earning Income 4-1, 4-2, 12-3, & 12-4)
2. Summary of 8-2
3. BigFuture Career Quiz
4. Labor Force Statistics
1. Standard 8-3
2. Earnings and Unemployment Rates by Educational Attainment
3. Field of Degree Profiles
4. Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
5. PayScale Salary Data & Career Research Center
6. College Students Won’t Work for Less Than $72,000 at Their First Job (2023 Data)
7. Should I Get a Master's Degree?
8. In Demand: The Colleges Where Students Start Jobs Right Away
1. Standard 8-4
2. College Return on Investment
3. College Navigator
1. Standard 8-5 (Much of this content is covered in Earning Income 12-7)
2. Payroll Deductions
1. Standard 8-6 (Content is also covered in Earning Income 12-10)
2. About Social Security
3. How Does Social Security Work?
1. Standard 8-7 (Content is covered in Earning Income 12-6, 12-7, & 12-8)
1. Standard 8-8
2. Medicaid
3. SNAP
4. Examples of personal circumstances that qualify for government income support or assistance
5. Benefit Cliff
1. Standard 8-9 (Much of this content is in Earning Income 4-4)
2. Entrepreneurship
1. Standard 12-1
2. Compensation package
3. Compensation costs up 4.2 percent from March 2023 to March 2024
4. Compensation costs for civilian workers averaged $46.14 per hour worked in March 2024
5. 73 percent of civilian workers had access to retirement benefits in 2023
6. Employer Sponsored Retirement Savings Plans
7. 401k Retirement Calculator
8. FSA
9. HSA
10. HSA Calculator
11. How To Evaluate A Job Offer
1. Standard 12-3
2. Which College Degrees Get the Highest Salaries?
3. The Labor Market for Recent College Graduates
4. Putting your major to work: Career paths after college
5. Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs?
6. Unemployment Data by Education Level
1. Standard 12-2
2. How Intangible Benefits Create a Better Employee Experience
3. Examples of Intangible Job Benefits
4. How intangible benefits can affect a worker’s career choices and income
5. Evaluate the tradeoffs between income and non-income factors when making career or job choices
6. Monday Morning Economist: Why Pilots Are Turning Down Top Jobs
7. 5 Things to Consider BEFORE Accepting a Job Offer | Indeed Career Tips
8. Charted: Money Can Buy Happiness After All
1. Standard 12-4
2. Controlled Versus Uncontrolled Gender Pay Gap
3. Race & Ethnicity
4. Gender Pay Gap
5. Wage Differentials
6. Why Are Women Paid Less Than Men?
7. Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes Explorer
8. Occupational Outlook Handbook
1. Standard 12-5
2. Economic and Labor Market Conditions
3. Unemployment FRED graphs
4. All Employees: Total Nonfarm
5. AI impact on employment
6. What Matt Walsh Gets Wrong about AI and Work
7. Education, Experience, Employment Type, Ethnicity, and Gender Impact Unemployment
1. Standard 12-6
2. Federal Government Revenues
3. Effective Federal Tax Rate
4. U.S. Tax System Is Progressive
5. Your Federal Income Tax Receipt
6. Who Benefits From Tax Breaks?
7. Four Simple Scenarios Show How Marginal Tax Rates and Breaks Affect What People Actually Pay
8. U.S. Tax Burden
9. Sources of State Government Revenue
10. Where Do Our State Tax Dollars Go?
11. State Tax Inequality Index
12. Sources of Local Government Revenue
13. Calculate Property Tax
14. Local Government Budget Expenditures
15. SmartAsset Federal Income Tax Calculator
16. SmartAsset Paycheck Calculator
1. Standard 12-7
2. Taxable Income
3. Federal Income Tax Rates and Brackets
4. State Individual Income Tax Rates and Brackets
5. Sales Tax Rates By State
6. Sales Tax Holidays by State
7. Tax Treatment of Groceries, Candy, and Soda Can Get Tricky
8. The Surprising Regressivity of Grocery Tax Exemptions
9. Vaping Taxes By State
10. Facts & Figures 2024: How Does Your State Compare?
11. Gross and Net Income
12. W-2 Versus 1099 Income
1. Standard 12-8
2. Earned v. Unearned Income
3. Federal Tax Rates on Earned Income & Interest Income
4. State Income Tax Rates and Brackets
5. Capital Gains Tax
6. Capital Gains Tax Calculator
1. Standard 12-9
2. IRS Tax Withholding Estimator
3. Tax credit versus tax deduction
4. Tax Credits Guide
1. Standard 12-10
2. Average Social Security Retired Worker Benefits
3. Social Security Quick Calculator
4. Social Security Lifetime Benefits & Taxes By Decade of Birth
5. How Does Your State Treat Social Security Income?
6. Why Young Americans Shouldn’t Count on Social Security
7. Policy Options For Social Security
8. Multiple Sources of Retirement Income
1. Standard 12-11
2. Benefits and Costs of Gig Employment
3. The Uber Game
4. Pros & Cons of Uber: For Drivers & Riders
5. Freelance, side hustles, and gigs: Many more Americans have become independent workers
6. YouTube Money Calculator
1. Raindrop Bookmarks
2. Personal Finance Inquiry Lessons
3. FIT Certification
4. Earning Income Knowledge Check
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Personal Finance On-Demand PD - Standard 1: Earning Income

Course curriculum

Welcome to the course!

Earning Income Standard 4-1

Earning Income Standard 4-2

Earning Income Standard 4-3

Earning Income Standard 4-4

Earning Income Standard 4-5

Earning Income Standard 4-6

Earning Income Standard 4-7

Earning Income Standard 8-1

Earning Income Standard 8-2

Earning Income Standard 8-3

Earning Income Standard 8-4

Earning Income Standard 8-5

Earning Income Standard 8-6

Earning Income Standard 8-7

Earning Income Standard 8-8

Earning Income Standard 8-9

Earning Income Standard 12-1

Earning Income Standard 12-3

Earning Income Standard 12-2

Earning Income Standard 12-4

Earning Income Standard 12-5

Earning Income Standard 12-6

Earning Income Standard 12-7

Earning Income Standard 12-8

Earning Income Standard 12-9

Earning Income Standard 12-10

Earning Income Standard 12-11

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