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This 24-word employment vocabulary word search introduces middle school students to essential workplace terms and concepts. Hidden words include salary, supervisor, benefits, commission, and overtime, covering pay structures, job roles, and employee responsibilities. Use it in a career-readiness or financial-literacy unit, as a life-skills classroom warm-up, or adapt it as a template for specialized career or industry-specific puzzles.

Subject:
Life Skills
Topic:
Work
Grade Level:
6th – 8th Grades
Updated June 2026

Word List

  • BENEFITS
  • DUTIES
  • EXPERIENCE
  • INCOME
  • JOB
  • LEAVE
  • POSITION
  • PROMOTION
  • RAISE
  • SALARY
  • SHIFT
  • SUPERVISOR
  • VACATION
  • VOLUNTEER
  • WAGES
  • COWORKER
  • OVERTIME
  • BONUS
  • COMMMISSION
  • DEDUCTIONS
  • TAXES
  • PERSONALDAY
  • RETIRE
  • TRANSFER

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