Income: What You Actually Have to Work With: Personal Finance Unit 1, Grade 9 (Letters & Devotion)

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Income: What You Actually Have to Work With is Unit 1 of Personal Finance: Decisions with Money (Grade 9), the Letters & Devotion Personal Finance course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 86 pages.

• The structure of a pay stub (gross pay, itemized deductions, net pay)
• The causal relationship between gross pay and net pay via withholding and FICA
• The gross-to-net pay calculation procedure
• Hourly vs. salary vs. commission/tips as income structures with different variability
• The effect of pay frequency on cash flow timing versus total income
• Net-income comparison across two full job offers
• Opportunity cost as applied to competing job offers
• Fit between an income structure’s characteristics and an untaught personal circumstance
• A written net-pay comparison and conditional recommendation between two job offers
• The validity of using gross salary alone as the deciding factor between job offers

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.