Getting hired
They want you working!
Types of work
Being old
Getting your dues and other stuff
100

Additional compensation from an employer; these can include health and dental insurance, childcare, retirement, and travel expenses.

What are Benefits

100

Extra hours you work MORE than full-time.

What is Overtime

100

A type of worker who is paid for each item the employee produces at a fixed amount.

What is a Pieceworker
100

Various means that employers may offer their employees as a way for their employees to save for retirement.

What are Retirement Plans.

100

This summarizes the earnings, the deductions, and the taxes from a period of work that you did.

What is a Pay Stub

200

The lowest hourly rate that can be paid to an hourly employee.

What is Minimum Wage

200

The rate if you work Overtime hours.

What is Time-and-a-Half pay
200

A method of payment where an employee receives a percentage of the amount of sales produced by that employee.

What is Commission

200

Assistance to employees who are injured while working at their job. This program is governed by state law.

What is Worker's Compensation

200

The method in which your pay comes to you.

What is a Paycheck or Direct Deposit

300

The number of hours a typical job requires.

What is 40 hours?

300

One of the benefits that employers often offer to their employees in which they don't report to work and still receive their salary.

What is Paid Time Off
300

Money that employees or others receive based on sales of their copyrighted material.

What is Royalty

300

Plans that allows employees to buy or receive financial ownership of a company.

What are Stock Ownership Plans

300

The type of taxes that go towards the income of retired, disabled, and survivors.

What is Social Security Taxes.

400

A short accounting of a job seeker's education and qualifications for employment.

What is a Resume

400

A type of long-term paid time off that an employer may offer to employees as an employee benefit.

What is Paid Vacation Time

400

The maximum income on which a person must pay Social Security tax in a given year.

What is Maximum Taxable Income

400

A type of investment plan employers often provide their employees that grows with the stock market and is intended to be untouched until retirement.

What is a 401k Investment Plan

400

The type of taxes that go towards the health insurance of retired, disabled, and survivors.

What is Medicare Taxes

500

A form that is filled out by a new employee that gives directions to the US government on how much money in taxes to deduct from an employee's earnings?

What is a W-4 Form

500

A type of insurance that covers all members of the immediate family for health care bills to the extent outlined in the promissory agreement.

What is Family Health Insurance

500

A government program that offers temporary assistance for employees who become unemployed through NO FAULT of their own and are actively looking for a job.

What is Unemployment Insurance

500

A type of retirement plan where an employee receives compensation from an employer after retirement.

What is Pension

500

The money that an employee and employer are charged that go to Social Security and Medicare.

What are FICA Taxes