{"id":181,"date":"2007-04-20T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T08:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=181"},"modified":"2007-04-20T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T08:53:07","slug":"budgetingforyournewjob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/budgetingforyournewjob\/","title":{"rendered":"Budgeting for Your New Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/brian\/Salary.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIf you\u2019re nearing graduation and about to step into the work force, changing your job, or just plain curious of the available salaries out there, then try &#8220;Salary.com&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salary.com\">http:\/\/www.salary.com<\/a>. This site gives you the median salaries of the jobs you\u2019re interested from the place (zip code) you specify. If that\u2019s still not enough for your budgeting purposes, use &#8220;this calculator&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.surepayroll.com\/calculator\/calc_paycheck_netpay.asp\">http:\/\/www.surepayroll.com\/calculator\/calc_paycheck_netpay.asp<\/a> to enter in information like your salary, deductions, and some other (clearly defined) stuff to get a rough estimate of your take home pay. For my whopping salary, the after tax estimator was only $50 off. Still not enough? With some quick info entered into turbotax (&#8220;here&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/turbotax.intuit.com\/tax_help\/tax_calculators\/tax_estimator.jhtml)\">http:\/\/turbotax.intuit.com\/tax_help\/tax_calculators\/tax_estimator.jhtml)<\/a> you can generate an estimated tax return. If it works out that you\u2019re just not making enough, learn the best ways &#8220;to get promoted&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/?How-To-Get-Yourself-Promoted&#038;id=500734,\">http:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/?How-To-Get-Yourself-Promoted&#038;id=500734,<\/a> &#8220;how to switch fields&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jobprofiles.org\/library\/guidance\/switch-careers.htm\">http:\/\/www.jobprofiles.org\/library\/guidance\/switch-careers.htm<\/a> or, contrarily, &#8220;how to get fired&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/careerplanning.about.com\/od\/workplacesurvival\/a\/get_fired.htm.\">http:\/\/careerplanning.about.com\/od\/workplacesurvival\/a\/get_fired.htm.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re nearing graduation and about to step into the work force, changing your job, or just plain curious of the available salaries out there, then try &#8220;Salary.com&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salary.com\">http:\/\/www.salary.com<\/a>. This site gives you the median salaries of the jobs you\u2019re interested from the place (zip code) you specify. If that\u2019s still not enough for your budgeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[58,240],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-business","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}