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What is Active Income - What is Passive Income?



 We all think about how to make extra money outside of our daily routine. There are many different ways of making money. To make money we need to understand basic of different type of incomes. Here i have put in simple terms what is Active and Passive income. I will be discussing them more in my future posts.


What is Active Income

As it's kind a clear from word "Active", active income mean income from actively performing a task. This task can be a service or manual work e.g. Project Management or a Electrician.

According to Investopedia:
Active income refers to income received from performing a service. This includes wages, tips, salaries, commissions and income from businesses in which there is material participation. For example, an accountant who works for a monthly paycheck receives active income.

From <https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/activeincome.asp>

What is Passive Income?

Real definition of Passive income refers to income received by doing nothing. In reality True passive income does not exists as you cannot earn money without doing anything. There is always little effort required to make money. So practically, passive income means when someone put little effort to generate money and hopefully after that little effort there is not much else needed.

In my upcoming posts i will be discussing some Passive income ideas. If you would like to be notified about my blog posts, please subscribe!

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