stokedDev/budget-app

Budget app, that informs of 50% needs, 30% wants, and 20% savings. Currently, it is just for Californians and factors in income tax for specific income brackets.

Budget

Quick-start Instruction

Call budgetResults(yrIncome, monthlyExpenses) in console.

Find the "How To Use" section below for full instructions.

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About

This console log budget app informs of 50% needs, 30% wants, and 20% savings.
Currently, it is just for residents of California who are single or married filing separately.
For now, it just returns results for income funds of $38,960 to $54,081, $54,082 to $68,350, and $68,351 to $349,137.

Information Returned In Console

1. year salary
2. monthly expenses
3. 50% for needs
4. 30% for wants
5. 20% for savings
6. sum of 50% needs and 30% wants minus monthly expenses(and the same sum minus monthly expenses not times 12).

How To Use

1. Open your terminal, then change directory to Desktop,
   then write git clone https://github.com/stokeddev/budget-app,
   then press the enter key on your keyboard.
2. In the budget-app folder on the Desktop, find and open the index.html file in a web browser.
3. In the web browser of the budget-app tab or window, navigate to the web browser developer tools.
4. Find the JavaScript console in the web browser developer tools.
5. In the JavaScript console of the opened index.html file, call the budgetResults function by writing budgetResults(yrIncome, monthlyExpenses)
6. Replace the function parameters yrIncome and monthlyExpenses with year income number and monthly expenses number respectively.
7. Press the enter key on your keyboard to print taxed income budget results in the console.

Changes Coming Soon

• Improvements
• Graphical Interface Web App
• code to return results for other income numbers

Informational Reference Source

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/california-state-tax