to put together. i could have done that for a dollar. you should have charged 50,000 just to be competitive it really does pay to be a kid. new survey by the american institute of cpa s finds that parents are giving $65 a month to their kids on average for an allowance. the amounts vary by age but that s the average. if you do the math. that ought to come out to about 15 bucks a week. it s enough money in a year for kids to buy an ipad and still have some money left over. all right. what would your allowance growing up. one dollar. one dollar. mine was $6 a week i had to mow the lawn to get the $6. i really want didn t have to do much. is that too much $65 a month? 15 a week. that s a lot of mope. here is the other thing that this surveyed show is that only 1% of parents see their kids saving it so it s not really teaching kids to save. i spent all mine on comic