Personal Finance

Salary Wizard

What is the range of salary I can expect?

Job Opportunities

What job opportunities are available in the area?

What do I want to be when I grow up?

Salary Deductions

  1. Taxes, Social Security, Health Insurance: 30% of Salary
  2. Loans: Graduate $300/month, Undergraduate $150, Technical $75

Housing

  1. Rent from Parents: $200/month
  2. You can arrange roommates within classes in your pod.


Transportation

Georgia Regional Transportation Authority
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

How to Write a Check

Learn to write a check

Another check writing link: Step by Step

How to write a check

Credit Card

  1. Generic Credit Card is assigned to each student through Pine Mountain National Bank.
  2. Interest Rate is 9% monthly.
  3. Credit Limit of $2500

Grocery List

  1. Create a grocery list for one week.
  2. Create a meal plan for one week that matches the grocery list.
  3. Visit a store or online website to compile a total price for groceries that will be used throughout the project.

Grocery Links

View Kroger Weekly Ad

View Publix Weekly Ad

Find a Phone Plan

  1. AT&T
  2. Sprint
  3. Verizon

Investing Websites

Am I ready to invest?

Tips for Students about Saving and Investing

Doctor's Malpractice Insurance Estimates

Surgeon: $9000 per month

Non-surgical: $3330 per month

If you are interested in downloading Photo Story 3 to your home computer, here is the link.  It is a free program from Microsoft.  It only works on Windows operating systems.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

Documents

Download a_year_in_the_life.pdf

Download financial_workbook.xls

Download storyboard_form.pdf

When saving your presentation as jpgs, here is a document with the steps.

Download saving_ppt_as_jpg.pdf