Allowance agreement
Name
Starting
Typical weekly allowance: 13: $10 to $15 · 14: $10 to $15 · 15: $15 to $20 · 16: $15 to $25 · 17: $15 to $25
Weekly allowance: $ paid every
It covers:
- Snacks and lunches out
- Outings with friends
- Games, apps and streaming
- Clothes beyond the basics
- Part of the phone bill
- Gas
- Gifts
- Hobbies and sports extras
Save % Spend % Give %
| Extra job | Pays |
|---|---|
| Mow, edge and blow the lawn | $ |
| Do the weekly grocery shop from a list, within a budget | $ |
| Plan, shop for and cook a family dinner | $ |
| Paint a room with a grown-up: prep, tape, two coats and cleanup | $ |
| $ | |
| $ |
| Week of | Allowance | Extra jobs | Total | Saved | Spent | Gave |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Signed and
Free chore charts by age at familypointstracker.com/chores
How to use this allowance chart
- Sit down together and tick what the allowance covers. Anything not ticked, you still buy.
- Agree the weekly amount from what you currently spend on the ticked items.
- Fill in a rate for each extra job, the way you would pay someone outside the family.
- Agree a save, spend and give split. Many families start around 50, 40 and 10.
- Fill in the tracker each week together for the first month, then let them run it.
How much allowance for a teenager
| Age | Per week |
|---|---|
| 13 | $10 to $15 |
| 14 | $10 to $15 |
| 15 | $15 to $20 |
| 16 | $15 to $25 |
| 17 | $15 to $25 |
More if the allowance covers clothes, a phone bill or gas. Our guide to how much allowance by age explains where these ranges come from, and why teens learn more from managing real money than from being told about it.
Extra jobs worth paying for
The extra jobs on the chart come from our chores for teens list: bigger jobs you might otherwise pay someone else to do. Everyday jobs like their own laundry usually stay unpaid.
Sources
Where this page makes a claim about safety or research, it comes from:
- Average weekly allowance by age for Greenlight kids and teens. Greenlight, 2025 data.
- Learn about the building blocks of financial capability. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
- Talk is cheap: Parent financial socialization and emerging adult financial well-being. LeBaron-Black et al., Family Relations, 2023.
