About This Lesson
Are you concerned that your students don't have a real grasp of what their cost of living will be post-high school or college? This salary-based budgeting project will put your concerns to rest. In this engaging project your students will...
- Choose a potential career path and research the salary associated with that career
- Calculate their take-home pay
- Be encouraged to "pay themselves first" through automatic saving
- Research the various costs in an independent adult's budget
- Reflect on the process of budgeting (no deficits allowed!)
Note: This is the Spanish version of this activity. You can access the English version here.
Next Gen Personal Finance offers a full semester course curriculum, individual lessons, and hundreds of projects, activities, case studies, and interactives for your personal finance class -- all for free. You can find the entire course, answer keys (with a free, verified teacher account) and the customizable format of this document as well as our professional development opportunities, at ngpf.org
