Grade 9-12

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Lesson

Wages and Me

Time: 90 mins,

Updated: August 11 2025,

Author: Tawni Ferrarini, Lisa Herman-Ellison

Teacher Version

Objective

Students will be able to:

Evaluate labor market conditions.
Identify the factors that influence wages.

Standards

National Standards in Economics

National Standards in Financial Literacy

State Standards

Common Core State Standards

Concepts

Basic Economic Concepts, Career Choices, Cost and Benefits, Factors of Production, Firms and Production, Income, Income, Personal Finance, Productive Resources

Subjects:

Economics,Personal Finance