Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Calculating the Numbers in Your Paycheck
Learners review a pay stub from a sample paycheck to understand the real-world effect of taxes and deductions on the amount of money they take home.
Internal Revenue Service
Irs: Completing a W 4
In May you will take on the role of Lawrence Red Owl in order to learn how to complete Form W-4.
Other
Economic Awareness Council: Your First Paycheck [Pdf]
Learn what all that information on your paycheck means, and learn to make smart decisions about how to use the money you earn.
Curated OER
Labor Market Equilibrium With a Payroll Tax
This site provides a good analysis of the concepts of marginal product, marginal revenue product, marginal costs, and how a monopsonist determines wages and quantity of labor hired.
PBS
Pbs: Where Does Your Paycheck Go?
Using real copies of pay stubs, students will examine them to see where all the deductions go. An extensive teacher's guide can be downloaded - the lessons are also intended for other sections of this website.
Social Security Administration
Social Security Online: A Tea Party That Changed History
Essay discussing how Frances Perkins was involved in passage of the Social Security Act. Also contains a link to a speech given by Perkins to SSA employees.