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Employment Review8/22/14
- Mrs. Frederick is paid semimonthly. Her semimonthly salary is $1641.55. What is her annual salary?
- Sally is paid semimonthly. Her annual salary is x dollars. Her office is considering going to a biweekly pay schedule. Express the difference between her biweekly salary and her semimonthly salary algebraically.
- Mrs. Roper works 40 hours per week regularly at a rate of $12.20 per hour. When she works overtime her rate is time and a half of her regular hourly rate. Find Mrs. Roper’s total pay for a week in which she earns 50 hours.
- In 2003, Carolos Zambrano earned $340,000 pitching for the Chicago Cubs. In 2009, his salary was $18,750,000.
- Zambrano pitched in 32 games in 2003. What was his salary per game in 2003?
- He pitched 28 games is 2009. What was his salary per game is 2009? Round to the nearest cent.
- Did he earn more per game in 2009 than he did for the entire 2003 season?
- Rihanna is paid 11.5% on her CD sales and music downloads. Last year, she sold 1.22 million CDs and 2.1 million music downloads. The CDs were sold to music stores for $5 each, and the music downloads were $1 each.
- What is the total amount of CD sales?
- What is the total amount of download sales?
- How much did Rihanna receive in royalties last year?
- Andrew sells electronics on commission. He receives 10% of his first x dollars in sales and 12% of the balance of his sales. Las month, he sold y dollars worth of electronics. Express the commission he earned last month algebraically.
- Casey is a real estate agent. She earns 6% commission on each sale that she makes. After working with a potential buyer for 3.5 months, she finally sold a house for $877,000.
- What did Casey earn on commission for this sale?
- This was her only sale for the entire 3.5 month period. What was her average salary per month for this period, to the nearest cent?
- For the next four months, Casey is not able to sell a house due to a faltering economy. What s her average monthly salary for the past 7.5 months, to the nearest cent?
- When Tyler started his current job, his employer gave him 5 days of paid vacation time with a promise of five additional paid vacation days for each two-year period he remains with the company to a maximum of 5 work weeks of paid vacation time.
- It has been eight years since Tyler began working for this employer. How many paid vacation days has he earned?
- Let x represent the number of years he has worked for this employer and y represent the number of paid vacation days he has earned. Write an equation that models the relationship of these variables.
- When will Tyler reach the maximum number paid vacation days allowable?
- As part of their employee benefits, all workers at Light and Power Electric Company receive a pension that is calculated by multiplying the number of years worked times 1.875% of the average of their three highest years’ salaries. Mia has worked for LPEC for 30 years and is retiring. Her highest salaries were $92,000, $94,800, and $96,250. Calculate Mia’s pension.
- Dan’s employee benefits include health care coverage. His employer covers 78% of the cost, which is a contribution of $1599.78 towards the total coverage. How much does Dan pay for his coverage?
- In 1998, Mr. Smith had two jobs. The first job, in which he earned $74,007, was from January to August and the second job, in which he earned $35, 311, was from August to the end of the year. As a result, he paid too much Social Security tax. How much should he be refunded?
- In 1998, Lisa earned $149,461.20. The Social Security to a maximum taxable income was $68,400, and the Social Security percent was 6.2%
- What was her monthly gross pay?
- In what month did Lisa hit the maximum taxable Social Security income?
- How much Social Security tax did Lisa pay in May, to the nearest cent?
- How much Social Security tax did Lisa pay in July, to the nearest cent?
- How much Social Security tax did Lisa pay in June, to the nearest cent?