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    Worksheet On Wages

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    This document contains a worksheet with several exercises calculating wages for employees in various scenarios. It provides basic hourly rates, calculates standard weekly wages, overtime rates that are typically time-and-a-half, and totals wages earned for standard and overtime hours worked within a given week. The examples address typists, factory workers, drivers, farm workers, and calculate things like standard pay, overtime pay, total pay, and overtime hours worked.

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    Worksheet On Wages

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    This document contains a worksheet with several exercises calculating wages for employees in various scenarios. It provides basic hourly rates, calculates standard weekly wages, overtime rates that are typically time-and-a-half, and totals wages earned for standard and overtime hours worked within a given week. The examples address typists, factory workers, drivers, farm workers, and calculate things like standard pay, overtime pay, total pay, and overtime hours worked.

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    This document contains a worksheet with several exercises calculating wages for employees in various scenarios. It provides basic hourly rates, calculates standard weekly wages, overtime rates that are typically time-and-a-half, and totals wages earned for standard and overtime hours worked within a given week. The examples address typists, factory workers, drivers, farm workers, and calculate things like standard pay, overtime pay, total pay, and overtime hours worked.

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    Worksheet On Wages

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    Naseeb Ali
    This document contains a worksheet with several exercises calculating wages for employees in various scenarios. It provides basic hourly rates, calculates standard weekly wages, overtime rates that are typically time-and-a-half, and totals wages earned for standard and overtime hours worked within a given week. The examples address typists, factory workers, drivers, farm workers, and calculate things like standard pay, overtime pay, total pay, and overtime hours worked.

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    WORKSHEET ON WAGES

    Exercise

    Answer the following:

    1) A typist is paid a basic rate of $22.50 per hour for a 40-hour week.
    a) Calculate the typist's basic weekly wage.

    [Answer $900]
    Overtime is paid at one and a half times the basic hourly rate.
    b) Calculate the overtime wage for ONE hour of overtime work.
    [Answer $33.75]

    To earn some extra money, the typist decided to work overtime.


    Calculate the:
    c) wage she would earn for overtime if she worked for a TOTAL of 52 hours during a
    given week.
    [Answer $405]
    d) total wage she would earn for 52 hours during a given week.
    [ Answer $1,305]
    e) number of overtime hours she must work during a given week to earn a TOTAL
    wage of $1440.
    [Answer 16 hours]

    2) A company pays its employees a basic wage of $9.50 per hour for a 40-hour week.
    a) Calculate the basic weekly wage for ONE employee.
    [ Answer $380 ]

    Overtime is paid at a rate of time and a half.

    b) Calculate the overtime wage for an employee who works 6 hours overtime in a
    certain week.
    [ Answer $85.50 ]
    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:

    c) The TOTAL paid in overtime wages


    [ Answer $684 ]
    d) The TOTAL number of overtime hours worked by the employees.
    [ Answer 48 hours ]

    3) The basic wage earned by a truck driver for a 40-hour week is $560.00.
    a) Calculate his hourly rate.
    [Answer $14 per hour ]
    For overtime work, the driver is paid one and a half times the basic hourly rate.
    b) Calculate his overtime wage for 10 hours of overtime.

    [Answer $210 ]

    c) Calculate the TOTAL wages earned by the truck driver for a 55-hour week.
    [Answer $875 ]

    4) Robin starts work each day at 7:30 a.m. and finishes at 4:30 p.m. He has a 45-
    minute lunch break.
    a) How many hours does he work?
    [Answer 8.25 hours ]
    b) Calculate his basic wage if his rate of pay is $7.25 per hour.
    [Answer $59.81 ]

    5) Mr. Riley worked at a factory for a basic week of 40 hours. During a particular week
    his basic wage was $513.88 which included overtime of $159.48.
    a) Calculate Mr. Riley’s basic rate of payment.
    [Answer $8.86 per hour ]
    b) If overtime was paid at time and a half, determine how many hours Mr. Riley
    worked for overtime.
    [Answer 12 hours ]
    6) At a farm, the basic week is 40 hours. During a particular week Ms. Annie earned a
    wage of $491.15 which included $156.75 overtime.
    a) Calculate Ms. Annie’s basic rate.
    [Answer $8.36 per hour]
    b) If overtime was paid at time and a quarter, how many hours did Ms. Annie worked
    for overtime?
    [Answer 15 hours ]
    7) Jane is paid $9.60 per hour for a 40-hour week and she is paid at time and a half for
    overtime. Determine how many hours of overtime she worked when her wage for a
    certain week was $528.00.
    [Answer 10 hours ]

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