<p>How much does a average college student earn in one year?</p>
<p>Work study and a summer job might give you $6,000 a year before taxes.</p>
<p>Working all summer, I made about $2800 from early May to December 31st, 2007. Mind you, I only worked 3 hours/week once school started due to my other job (unpaid, but $500 scholarship), so I could’ve earned more if I didn’t have the other job. </p>
<p>To give you an idea, I’ve earned about $2000 from Jan 1 thru May 15, working 10-15 hours/week, and haven’t received any summer checks yet. I’ll pull in almost $600 two paychecks from now, covering the 16th-31st. Depending on the job and if there are limits to how many hours you’re allowed to work, you could make a lot of money.</p>
<p>In 2007 I made about $1750. That’s working about between 6-10 hours a week, being paid between 5.50 (first job from Jan to end of summer) to 5.85 (first job after minimum wage went up) to 6.50 (latest job from September on).</p>
<p>In 2007 I made about $3000 over the summer. I made $9/hour and worked many hours each week, sometimes up to 50.</p>
<p>how much are taxes?</p>
<p>taxes are usually 10-20% for college students’ income brackets…</p>
<p>I believe my total income tax filed the last couple of years has been around 6-8k/yr and I’ve been working full time in the summers and 15-25 hrs/wk during the school year</p>
<p>Yeah my taxes were about 15% of my income.</p>
<p>I’m getting some money back soon though. Cha-ching.</p>
<p>I made about $2,500 this last academic year doing 10 hrs/wk of work study at $7.95 an hour.</p>
<p>I made about $8600 in the 2007 calendar year (end of sophomore/beginning of junior year). 10+ hours a week tutoring/grading @$10 an hour during the semester, $3800+ for NSF funded REU project in the summer, $2000+4 weeks room and board+Cedar Point trip+minor league baseball game+reimbursement for activities (like movies, laser tag, etc) as a summer camp residence counselor. I’d imagine this is a little bit higher than average because both the REU and the summer camp are pretty sweet deals, and I’m able to do both of them.</p>
<p>My son pulled in about $6500 in 2007 working 10-15 hours a week while in school excluding vacations and full time from Memorial Day to mid-August when he returned to school (I did his taxes). He worked just enough to cover gas, books, laundry and pocket money for the year, supplemented with the $50 his grandma sent him every month LOL and when he does come home he’s always broke. We pay his car insurance (PL/PD) and his cell phone which is $10 a month on my family plan.</p>
<p>I made about $15,000 last year (waitressing 
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<p>I made about $2500 a few summers ago working at a public garden (could’ve been more if I wasn’t late so often). I worked full-time and worked my ass off doing labor-intensive tasks, but I was in the best shape of my life and my maturity level grew.</p>
<p>Now I’m making $22/hour working for an editor. It was listed through my school’s recruitment website and while I thought I had no chance, I applied anyway. I couldn’t believe I got the job, not because it was asking for much, but I just thought it would’ve been more competitive.</p>
<p>But I think I sort of understand why the pay rate was so high, because the work does tend to fluctuate; more work during the fall and winter, and then it slides down for the spring and summer when I could be working 10 or less hours. During those busy months, I can pull in +$1600! But it’s not like I go crazy and have a spending spree; I live off-campus so $800 goes to my rent and utilities while the rest is used for food and books for classes.</p>
<p>I made 2500. I usually make some cash over the summer too (around 1000??) but I didn’t work at all last Summer so…
2100 from workstudy (9 hours a week) and 400 from magazine drawing commission.
And I don’t pay any taxes, just got it all returned although it was like 2 dollars to start out with…</p>
<p>This Summer I’m making 1500 though… 4 hours a day. I kinda want to work more during June (I’m only making 1500 during july so august and june’s open) so i can hopefully make some more money. T.T wrecked my car recently… well at least i dont have to worry about insurance, parking fees, car registration fees…</p>
<p>i’d say about 5,000 from working 8-16 hr/week at my workplace for 8 months.</p>
<p>I get $2000 in work study during the year. summer jobs can really vary depending on what you do.</p>
<p>How do you guys get these jobs?</p>
<p>lol @ American students getting taxed. I don’t get taxed at all here as a student.</p>
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<p>Apply.
Interview.
Job. :)</p>
<p>My last paycheck (for a 15 day period) was around $630. I work at the campus rec center, and during the summer usually get 35-40 hours per week. It only pays $7.50 at my position (hoping for a promotion in August!) but with alot of hours the money adds up fast. I don’t think anyone here is working absolutely fantastic jobs. They may get paid a lot but it’s not like we’re working on Wall Street and pulling in the big bucks. I do love my job even if the pay is lower than other jobs in the area.</p>
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<p>College students aren’t supposed to pay for income taxes.
There’s an exemption for being a full-time student. Most students don’t know to claim exempt though.</p>
<p>I’ve always claimed exempt, myself.</p>