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Pay and benefits
Career
College
Work
Paying for School
100
A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially to a manual or unskilled worker.
What is wage?
100
Another word for career
What is occupation?
100
An equivalent to a high school diploma.
What is a GED?
100
The place you go to for work.
What is the workplace?
100
Financial assistance that covers educational expenses including tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, and transportation
What is financial aid?
200
The total amount you earn.
What is income?
200
New careers that have been created in the last ten years.
What are nontraditional careers?
200
Two-year college diploma from MATC.
What is an Associate's Degree?
200
A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
What is an entrepreneur?
200
The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community.
What is standard of living?
300
The amount you are paid in your paycheck after deductions.
What is net monthly income?
300
A series of structured and connected education programs and support. services that enable students, often while they are working, to advance over time to better. jobs and higher levels of education and training.
What are Career Pathways?
300
Four-year degree from a university
What is a Bachelor's Degree or B.A.?
300
A job that generally requires little skill and knowledge, and is generally of a low pay. These jobs may require physical strength or some on-site training.
What is an entry-level job?
300
A sum of money given by an organization, especially a government, for a particular purpose
What is a grant?
400
The money you make a month before deductions.
What is gross monthly income?
400
An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress>
What is a career?
400
The first level of graduate study. To apply for a this degree you usually must already hold an undergraduate degree (a bachelor's degree). It typically requires a year and one-half to two years of full-time study.
What is a Master's Degree?
400
The quality of being trustworthy or of performing consistently well.
What is reliability?
400
The financial aid form necessary to apply for money for college.
What is FAFSA?
500
The money deducted from your paycheck for taxes, health care and retirement?
What are payroll deductions?
500
A combination of on-the-job training (OJT) and related classroom instruction under the supervision of a journey-level craft person or trade professional in which workers learn the practical and theoretical aspects of a highly skilled occupation.
What is an apprenticeship?
500
Credit hours earned when a high school student is taking a college course for both high school and college credit, during the high school day, on the high school campus, taught by a qualified high school instructor.
What is concurrent enrollment?
500
Skills and abilities that are relevant and helpful across different areas of life: socially, professionally and at school. They are 'portable skills'. People usually think about their transferable skills when applying for a job or when thinking about a career change.
What are transferable skills?
500
A grant or payment made to support a student's education, awarded on the basis of academic or other achievement.
What is a scholarship?