Adulting 101: Understanding Your First Professional Paycheck

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Receiving your first professional paycheck is a memorable moment for anyone starting out, but the maze of numbers can be hard to follow. In the second episode of our three-part series “Adulting 101: Navigating the Real World,” we go line by line to explain taxes and other deductions taken out of your check that result in your take-home pay. Plus, the right questions to ask to maximize your employee benefits. J.R. Whalen and Ariana Aspuru host. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	I'm J. R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal.
0:38.0	And I'm Mariana Espuru.
0:39.0	We're back with the second installment of our series, Adultulting 101, navigating the real world.
0:46.1	Ariana, you're the producer of your money briefing,
0:48.4	but you're also a great co-pilot for this series
0:51.1	because you went through adulting and this minefield of entering the real world. this I would say that I feel very much still in the thick of it. It's such a long process with so many
1:06.2	ups and downs. In our first episode, we talked about ways you can use AI tools in your job search.
1:12.3	Now, let's say you've done that first big part of adulting.
1:16.2	You got the job and you're really excited.
1:19.0	So you're in the door, you got your work laptop,
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