Commission
Aliyah is a realtor who receives 3.5% commission on the price of each home she sells. Last month she sold 6 houses for a total of $780,000. What was her total earnings?
What is $27,300?
Kamya makes prom dresses for a living. She made 4 dresses and charged $750 for each one. How much did she earn?
What is $3000?
Julie wrote a Financial Algebra textbook and received a 20% royalty based on the total sales of the book. The book sells for $120 and 25,000 copies were sold. How much did Julie receive in royalties?
What is $600,000?
Name a job that pays commission that involves writing books?
What is an author?
What rate are pieceworkers paid?
What is a piecework rate?
Rainna is a travel agent who earns 7% of the total booking. If she booked $52,000 last month, how much did she earn?
What is $3640?
Aajah works in a doll factory and makes $1.25 per doll she assembles. If she assembled 67 dolls today, what did she earn?
What is $83.75?
Drake gets paid 6% every time one of his songs gets played on the radio. If his songs get played 200,000 times, how much will he earn from royalties?
What is $12,000?
Name a job that pays commission that has to do with making music?
What is a musician?
What job has to do with raising animals and growing crops?
What is farming?
Stacia sells new cars at a local dealership. She receives a 25% commission on the profit each car is sold for. Last month she sold nine cars, for a total of $8,870 dealer profit. How much did she earn in commission?
What is $2,217.50?
Tameron picks peaches and earns $1.25 a bushel up to 20 bushels and $2.00 for each bushel over 20. How much will Tameron earn if he picks 35 bushels?
What is $55?
Missy Elliott receives a 10% royalty every time one of her songs that is sampled by another artist gets played. If this happens 500,000 times, how much does she earn?
What is $50,000?
What job involves selling houses?
What is a realtor?
What job involves making products from raw materials?
What is manufacturing?
Jonathan has a job selling magazine subscriptions by phone. He makes a base salary of $12.60 per hour plus 5% commission on all sales. Last week, Jonathan worked 35 hours and sold $230 worth of subscriptions. What was his gross pay for the week?
What is $452.50?
Ali picks corn and gets paid at a piecework rate of 55 cents per container for the first 300 containers picked. He receives 60 cents per container for every container over 300 that he picks. Last week, Ali picked 370 containers. How much did he earn?
What is $207?
J.K. Rowling made 15% in royalties for her Harry Potter novels. They have sold 500 million copies. She earned a one-time licensing fee of $60 million for the Wizarding World theme park attractions. What was the total amount of earnings for her novels and licensing fee together?
What is $135,000,000?
What profession helps people find flights and places to stay on vacation?
What is a travel agent?
What job involves making clothes in a plant?
What are clothing factories?
Jayde works in a local factory. She receives 92 cents for each of the first 100 units she produces and $1.01 for each unit over 100. Yesterday she produced 120 units. How much did Jayde earn?
What is $112.20?
Amorre works in a factory. She receives a salary of $15 per hour and piecework pay of 15 cents per unit produced. Last week she worked 40 hours and produced 988 units. What was her total pay for the week?
What is $748.20?
Henry wrote a textbook for high school students. He receives a 5% royalty based on total sales. The book sells for $52 and 12,341 copies were sold last year. How much did he receive in royalty payments for last year?
What is $32,086.60?
What job involves buying and selling stocks?
What is a stockbroker?
What job involves writing for newspapers or magazines?
What is journalism?