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Salaries and Wages - Worksheet

This document contains a worksheet with multiple math problems calculating salaries, wages, commissions, and overtime pay for various employees. It asks the reader to calculate things like: - A salesman's fixed salary, commission on car sales, and total income for the year. - Basic weekly wages and overtime pay for employees earning $9.50/hour and $30/hour respectively. - A typist's basic weekly wage, overtime pay rate, total pay for 52 hours, and overtime hours needed to earn $144. - A truck driver's hourly rate, 10 hours of overtime pay, and total pay for a 55 hour week.

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Salaries and Wages - Worksheet

This document contains a worksheet with multiple math problems calculating salaries, wages, commissions, and overtime pay for various employees. It asks the reader to calculate things like: - A salesman's fixed salary, commission on car sales, and total income for the year. - Basic weekly wages and overtime pay for employees earning $9.50/hour and $30/hour respectively. - A typist's basic weekly wage, overtime pay rate, total pay for 52 hours, and overtime hours needed to earn $144. - A truck driver's hourly rate, 10 hours of overtime pay, and total pay for a 55 hour week.

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Mathematics

Salaries and Wages


Worksheet
1. In a certain company, a salesman is paid a fixed salary of $3 140 per month plus an
annual commission of 2% on the TOTAL value of cars sold for the year. If the salesman
sold cars valued at$720 000 in 2009, calculate
i. his fixed salary for the year
ii. the amount he received in commission for the year
iii. his TOTAL income for the year.

2. A company pays its employees a basic wage of $9.50 per hour for a 40-hour week.
i. Calculate the basic weekly wage for ONE employee.
Overtime is paid at a rate of time and a half.
ii. Calculate the overtime wage for an employee who works 6 hours overtime in a
certain week.
In a certain week, the company paid its 30 employees a total of $12 084.00 in basic and overtime
wages. Calculate for that week:
iii. The TOTAL paid in overtime wages
iv. The TOTAL number of overtime hours worked by employees

3. A typist is paid a basic wage of $22.50 per hour for a 4O-hour week.
i. Calculate the typist's basic weekly wage.
Overtime is paid at one and a half times the basic hourly rate.
ii. Calculate the overtime wage for ONE hour of overtime work
To earn some extra money, the typist decided to work overtime.
Calculate
iii. the wage she would earn for overtime if she worked for a TOTAL of 52 hours during
a given week.
iv. the number of overtime hours she must work during a given week to earn a TOTAL
wage of $144

4. The basic wage earned by a truck driver for a 40 hour week is $560.00
i. Calculate his hourly rate
For overtime work the driver is paid at one and a half times the basic rate. Calculate his
overtime wage for 10 hours of overtime
ii. Calculate the total wage earned for a 55 hour week

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