Regular Earnings
Pilar Perez is a truck driver. She earns $17.65 per hour. She worked 40 hours last week. What was her straight-time pay?
$706.00
Kelsey Newberg is a robotics technician. She earns $21.50 per hour for 40 hours and time and a half for overtime over 40 hours. If she worked 6 hours overtime, what is her total pay?
$1,053.50
Devon Price is a high school teacher and soccer coach. His annual salary is $37,440. What is his biweekly salary?
$1,440.00
Reagan earns a 3% commission on the sale of a $512,800 home. What is his commission?
$15,384
The formula “hourly rate times the number of hours worked” is used to calculate which type of pay?
straight-time pay
Part-time security officers at Burns/Pinkerton Security are currently being hired at $12.00 per hour. What is the straight-time pay for a part-time officer who works 22 hours?
$264.00
Naveen Borah is a maintenance worker. He earns $12.80 per hour for 40 hours and time and a half for overtime. He worked 48 hours last week. What is his pay for the week?
$665.60
Lorenzo Caballero was just hired as an engineer for Saxon Engineering. His starting salary is $57,600 annually. What is his semimonthly salary?
$2,400.00
Reese receives a 3.5% commission for selling cleaning supplies. What is his commission on sales of $122,591?
$4,290.69
When you record the number of hours you work, if you don’t work an entire hour, you should round to the nearest:
quarter hour
Tomás Lopez is a computer technician. He earns $16.75 per hour. Last week he earned $636.50 straight-time pay.
Find the number of hours worked by Tomás last week.
38
As a children’s librarian, Jodi Hassam earns $15.35 an hour plus time and a half for weekend work. Last week she worked her regular 40 hours plus 16 hours on the weekend. What was her total pay for the week?
$982.40
Ralph Konsky was hired as an administrative assistant for Hereford Cattle Company. His annual salary is $34,100. What is his weekly salary?
$655.77
You sell storm windows and doors. You receive a straight commission of 8% of the selling price of each storm window and 12% of the selling price of each door. What total commission will you receive for selling storm windows worth $5,400 and doors worth $28,790?
$432 + $3,454.80 = $3,886.80
The formula “rate per item times the number of items produced” is used to calculate which type of pay?
Piecework
Bill Watson is the Swanton Village computer technician. He earns $22.22 per hour. What is his straight-time pay for a 36-hour week?
$799.92
Georgia Lybrand installs fencing. She is paid $9.50 per hour for an 8-hour day and time and a half for overtime for any work over 8 hours per day. What is her pay for a week when she worked 7, 12, 9, 10, and 10 hours?
$498.75
Mary O’Connel is earning a weekly salary of $521.60 as a payroll clerk. She has accepted a new assignment in the tax processing department. In her new position, she will be paid an annual salary of $30,534.00. How much more will she earn per week in her new position?
$65.59
Wyatt brokers sales agreements for a major home builders chain. He is paid a straight commission of 1.5% of the contract plus an annual bonus of 2.5% of total contracts over
$1,500,000 per year. What is his total pay for a year in which he had total contracts for $2,555,500?
$38,332.50 + $26,387.50 = $64,720.00
If you work for a company that pays you a regular salary on a biweekly basis, it means that you receive a paycheck how many times per year?
26
Jean Mesear is a saw operator in a lumber mill.
He works 40 hours a week and earns $630 per week. What is his hourly pay?
$15.75
You are a computer technician for Data Control. You earn a regular hourly rate of $15.40. You earn time and a half for work on Saturdays and double time on Sundays. This week you worked 38 hours from Monday through Friday, 8 hours on Saturday, and 5 hours on Sunday. What is your total pay for the week?
$924
Joseph Cheyenne is earning an annual salary of $24,895. He has been offered a new job paying $28,000 annually. How much more would he earn per month if he switches roles.
$258.75
Tobias Gold sells computers at The Office Center. He is guaranteed a minimum salary of $1,959 per month plus 6.3% commission on total sales. How much in total sales does he need in order to have a gross pay for the month of $2,784.84?
$13,108.57
If you are paid a certain amount of money for every sale you make or a percent of the total value of your sales, which type of pay are you receiving?
Commission