By 16, children receiving free school meals achieve 1.7 grades lower at GCSE than their wealthier peers.6 Leaving school with fewer qualifications translates into lower
earnings over the course of a working life.
And many of those who lost their jobs in the wake of the global financial crisis and the continuing restructuring we see in many sectors, are shocked when they discover how little help they were entitled to, despite the contributions they had
made over the course of their working lives.
Nathalie Des Rosiers, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, says legal education has been changing with the times to help prepare students to be flexible enough to move from career to
career over the course of their working lives.
While previous generations may have had a career for life and received a generous retirement package at the end of their tenure, the technology talent of today will likely be employed by several
firms over the course of their working life (not least as the age of retirement continues to rise).
The «multiplier» is adjusted in the Ogden Tables [industry approved actuarial tables] to take account of the fact that the employee is getting all his lost earnings now rather than as salary
spread over the course of his working life.
As illustrated in our recent infographic, investing in a college education or graduate school has long been and remains a good way to increase the amount of money you can expect to
earn over the course of your working life, but more recent analyses reveal more about how your earning capacity also is influenced by the cards you were dealt at birth: your demographics.
Over the course of your working life, it looms even larger — an amount that has...
We know, for instance, that most young people today will have five or six jobs, if not careers,
over the course of their working lives.
Over the course of your working life, these contributions from your employer add up, or «accumulate», which is why they are known as accumulation funds.
Typically,
over the course of your working life, your investment strategy progressively changes from growing to preserving your balance.
Over the course of my working life, I have been a scientist, a lawyer, a fund manager, and an entrepreneur.
This can be especially tricky if you've gone through a career change (or two)
over the course of your work life.