Learn How to Budget Your Money With a Variable Income 69

How can you decide how much you have for bills and expenses when your payday varies from one pay day to the next? That could be a question a lot of people tussle with.

A few of the occupations that I can think about off hand that could fall into this category are waitresses or waiters working for salary and tips, lorry drivers that are paid by the mile and never know how many miles they're going to get, the self-employed that their business income varies from season to season, and the list could go on.

Attempting to manage your financials with a regular income is hard enough but when you never know what your paycheck will be appears just about impossible, but it's's not. It is going to be a little more troublesome.

In my Budget and Bill Organizer I talk about averaging your expenses like your telephone and electric bills that alter from month to month. The same principle may be employed to average your income.

The first step you want to take is to find records of your pay for as far back as you can. It might be best if you had records going back for no less than 6 months.

Take these records and total the amounts you were paid for the entire period. Then divide that by the number of months you have records for. This will give you your average monthly income.

If you don't have any record of your prior pay you could need to go to your employer to get the information. If there is no method to get this information you need to start a log of how much you get paid and use this to develop your budget.

Once you have determined your average monthly earnings you will need to develop your position just as if this was your ordinary pay.

Here is where it gets tricky. You aren't always going make the amount you have budgeted. The only way to handle this is to save when you make more than what you have budgeted.

Here's an example :

You have determined that your monthly budget is $2000 per month ;

In January you earn $2500. You'll need to put away $500 of that money so that you can make up for any month that your earnings falls below $2000.

This sounds like a simple solution to a complicated problem but it may not be as simple as it sounds unless you used to saving money. It will take some discipline to be certain that money is there when you want it.

There could be a bright side to this method. If you are able to put the additional money away and you have many months that you make more than your budget you might finish up with a large high-interest account.

When setting up your budget ensure that you do not deprecate your bills and expenses. This is one of the major reasons many budgets fail.

By averaging your earnings it will prevent the'Feast to Famine' approach to your purchasing. It only makes perfect sense to spread your revenue out so that you can cover your bills and expenses each month.

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