Chapter 12 Vocabulary
Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate
12.1 Calculating Employee Earnings
Fun Facts
100

What is Wage?

What is the amount paid to an employee for every hour worked is called Wage?

100

What is the rule if you clock in 15 minutes before or 15 after you come to work.

What is

 The rule is you round it to the nearest hour?

100

Name the four steps on calculating hourly employee total earnings.

What is 

1 Regular Hours x Regular Rate = Regular Earnings

2 Regular Hours x 1.5 = Overtime Rate

3 Overtime Hours x Overtime Rate = Overtime Earnings 

4 Regular Earnings x Overtime Earnings = Total Earnings


100

How many students in Marketing? 

What is 

38

200

What is Salary?

What is a fixed amount regardless of the number of hours worked?

200

Morning

What is the formulas when calculating employee hours worked? 

What is 

Departure Time  - Arrival Time = Hours Worked

Nearest to the quarter-hour

200

Name the 4 times employers distribute payroll.

What is

Weekly, Bi-weekly, semi-monthly, and monthly


200

What high school did Mr. Shuman go to?

What is 

B.C. High School

300

What is the Pay Period?

What is the number of days or weeks of work covered by an employee's payment?

300

Afternoon

What is the formulas when calculating employee hours worked? 

What is 

Departure Time  - Arrival Time = Hours Worked

Nearest to the quarter-hour

300

Explain the role of a payroll clerk

What is 

Calculate hours and Calculate hourly pay and overtime 

300

What place did Alyaa Mohamed get in the District Competition at DECA for Accounting

What was 

4th Place

400

What are Payroll Taxes?

What are taxes based on the payroll of a business are called payroll taxes?
400

 Describe the overtime rules of the Fair Labor Standards Act.



What is 

This act requires most businesses involved in 1 1/2 times the normal hourly rate for hours worked in excess of 40 hours.

400

What does outsource mean

What is

Business contract another business to do their payroll

400

How many years has Mr. Torres been teaching?

What is

27 years

500

What is the withholding allowance? 

What is a deduction from total earnings for each person legally called a withholding allowance?

500

Identify three methods used by modern time clock systems to record employee arrival and departure times

What is 

An employee can swipe their name badges, key in personal identification # or press finger on a biometric pad t record their arrival or departure.

500

What is the average salary for a payroll clerk?

What is

$31,000 - 50,000

500

How many students in Marketing will graduate this year?

What is 

Just kidding