EVERFI Vault Module 3: Income and Careers

When you get paid a certain amount for each hour you work.

• Salary

• Wage

• Gross income

• Net income

When you get the same amount of money each week, but you’re expected to work a certain number of hours each week.

• Salary

• Wage

• Gross income

• Net income

the amount of money in your paycheck that you take home after paying taxes and anything else that gets taken out of your pay.

• Salary

• Wage

• Gross income

• Net income

Something you do to earn money.

• job

• salary

The type of job you do for a long time.

• job

• career

Money that goes to the government to pay for things like schools, road repairs, fire department and police come from the _____.

• wages we pay.

• salaries we get.

• taxes we pay.

To be reliable means that you can be trusted.

• False

• True

A job is _____.

• a. something you need to do

• b. something you do to earn money

• c. something you do when you are bored

• d. something you are told to do

A career is _____.

• a. a single job you have once

• b. the kind of job most people have

• c. the type of job you do for a long time

• d. the way you save money

How is a career path different from a job?

• a. A career path is made up of jobs in the same field.

• b. A career path clearly marks how to get a job.

• c. A career path is a different type of work than a job.

• d. There is no difference---they’re exactly the same.