Module 1: Occupation and Taxes
You will be taking a career assessment to determine an occupation that best suits your interests.
Option 1: CFNC Career Assessment
Use the document below to create a CFNC account and complete a career assessment to find a career that you would enjoy. You will find the major you need for college and your ENTRY level salary from this assessment.
Option 1: CFNC Career Assessment
Use the document below to create a CFNC account and complete a career assessment to find a career that you would enjoy. You will find the major you need for college and your ENTRY level salary from this assessment.
Option 2: Teacher chosen Career Assessment
Complete the career assessment chosen by your teacher. Using your choice from the career assessment, you will research the average first-year out of college income. Use the website below to help you in your research of entry level salary. Then use your research to pick a career path. You should use the project document to record your findings.
Complete the career assessment chosen by your teacher. Using your choice from the career assessment, you will research the average first-year out of college income. Use the website below to help you in your research of entry level salary. Then use your research to pick a career path. You should use the project document to record your findings.
Hooray! You will be earning a lot of money! That is so exciting...until you get your first paycheck and you realize that you are only taking home about 70% of that salary. What happened? TAXES! In order for our country to run, and for you to benefit from things like public educations, paved roads, mail service etc. we all must pay taxes. Using the IRS Tax Application below go through each of the 9 slides. Then watch the video below. TAKE NOTES! These are things you may be quizzed on!
Do you remember piecewise functions? The federal income tax is a piecewise function. Using the link below, read about the current federal income tax. Then you will write a piecewise function to represent the 2015 SINGLE federal income tax (use the first table in the article to write your piecewise function)
http://www.irs.com/articles/2015-federal-tax-rates-personal-exemptions-and-standard-deductions
You will be writing this and inserting it into your project document. If you do not remember how to write a piecewise function, refer to your Unit 1 Notes packet, or watch the video below.
http://www.irs.com/articles/2015-federal-tax-rates-personal-exemptions-and-standard-deductions
You will be writing this and inserting it into your project document. If you do not remember how to write a piecewise function, refer to your Unit 1 Notes packet, or watch the video below.