Life Skills - Minimum Wage - Gross and Net Pay - Jobs - Real World Math - Money

Many students have a goal to be employed one day. Although they want to live an independent life filled with luxuries, many do not understand that the jobs they will be starting with often will be paying them minimum wage. Since students usually struggle conceptualizing what the idea of minimum wage really mean, help bridge their gap with this PRINT and GO packet!

It walks students through a variety of pre-employment skills, including job application vocabulary, sample job application scenarios, minimum wage calculations, and gross vs. net pay differences as well. These skills are often easily overlooked in the classroom and many students enter the workforce unprepared to truly understand how far a dollar can take them these days. 

With this purchase, students can get a real world look into entry-level jobs and how their wages might impact their budgeting decisions in the future. Please take a look at the attached preview to see a sampling of the worksheets and activities offered with this this lesson.

What is great about this unit is that it is age-appropriate and presented in a manner that scaffolds success for all learners. Although originally designed for resource level, special education students, ANY teacher looking to incorporate real world learning would benefit from the life skills that these lessons offer! 

Purchase Includes:

• Application Cheat Sheets
• Cheat Sheet Reflection Activity
• Sample Job Application Scenario w/ Blank Application
• Introduction to Minimum Wage Calculations
• Six Weekly Wage Calculation Sample Prompts
• Six Monthly Wage Calculation Sample Prompts
• Can You Survive on Minimum Wage Reality Check Worksheet (Blank)
• Can You Survive on Minimum Wage Reality Check Worksheet (Sample Amounts)
• Gross Pay vs. Net Pay Comprehension Activity
• Eight Gross Pay vs. Net Pay Sample Prompts