Personal finance
Across
- 2. formal meeting
- 4. A one-page letter summarizing your skills, past experiences, goals, and how they align with the organization or company you are applying to.
- 6. A percentage of the total sales, paid to an employee instead of or in addition to salary and wages.
- 8. skills-Skills that are practiced over time, and often are a reflection of how you exist in your daily communication, leadership, problem-solving, creativity, collaboration
- 11. cover future expenses.
- 12. The lowest wage permitted by law, as determined by each state.
- 16. tax figured as a percentage of someone’s earnings, used to pay for public goods and services.
- 17. The sum of all wages, salaries, profits, and other earnings, before taxes and deductions.
- 18. insurance-Everyone must have this.
- 21. gained through employment and investment returns.
- 22. part of the nation's healthcare program for elderly and disabled people. This calculates as a 1.45% deduction of your gross income.
- 23. security-is part of the nation's retirement program that pays retirement income and disability benefits. This calculates as 6.2% of gross income.
Down
- 1. letter written by someone who can highlight your skills
- 3. “take-home” money after all taxes and deductions have been made from the gross income.
- 5. who can comment on your personal character, work ethic, or past work experiences
- 7. document that highlights a person’s education, work and academic experiences, honors, community involvement, and skills.
- 9. for Federal Insurance Contribution Act, and is a combination of Social Security and Medicare.
- 10. acceptable qualities or behaviors connected to the expectations of the setting
- 13. internship is a temporary job (usually 2-3 months) that allows experience in a work environment for a specific career, and can help narrow down a career choice.
- 14. A payment usually of money for labor or services completed, and usually according to a contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis.
- 15. Amount of money an employee is paid each year. This is different than hourly wage.
- 19. time when a person is paid for work, also known as a part of the workforce.
- 20. market- “job market”