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Zazu works a 38-hour week and is paid at an hourly rate of $45. Any overtime hours worked are paid at time-and-a-half.
In a particular week, Zazu worked the regular 38 hours and some overtime hours. In that week Zazu earned $2790.
How many hours of overtime did Zazu work in that week? (3 marks)
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Tian is paid $20.45 per hour, as well as a meal allowance of $16.20 per day.
What are Tian's total earnings if she works 9 hours per day for 5 days?
Julia earns $28 per hour. Her hourly pay rate increases by 2%.
How much will she earn for a 4-hour shift with this increase?
A nanny charges $15 per hour, or part thereof, for looking after a child.
What does the nanny charge for looking after a child from 8 am until 3.20 pm on a particular day?
Tom earns a weekly wage of $1025. He also receives an additional allowance of $87.50 per day when handling toxic substances.
What is Tom’s income in a fortnight in which he handles toxic substances on 5 separate days?
Jenny earns a yearly salary of $63 752. Her annual leave loading is 17.5% of four weeks pay.
Calculate her total pay for her four weeks of annual leave. (3 marks)
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Isabella works a 35-hour week and is paid at an hourly rate of $18. Any overtime hours worked are paid at time-and-a-half. In a particular week, she earned $1008.
How many hours in total did Isabella work in this week to earn this amount?
David is paid at these rates:
His time sheet for last week is:
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Stan worked for 24 hours as shown on his pay slip.
What was his hourly rate of pay?
Joe is about to go on holidays for four weeks. His weekly salary is $280 and his holiday loading is 17.5% of four weeks pay.
What is Joe’s total pay for the four weeks holiday?
Luke’s normal rate of pay is $15 per hour. Last week he was paid for 12 hours, at time-and-a-half.
How many hours would Luke need to work this week, at double time, to earn the same amount?
Simon is a mechanic who receives a normal rate of pay of $22.35 per hour for a 40-hour
week.
When he is needed for emergency call-outs he is paid a special allowance of $150 for that
week. Additionally, every time he is called out to an emergency he is paid for a minimum
of 4 hours at double time.
In the week beginning 2 February, 2011 Simon worked 40 hours normal time and was
needed for emergency call-outs. His emergency call-out log book for the week is shown.
What was Simon’s total pay for that week?
This advertisement appeared in a newspaper
What is the maximum possible salary per annum for this civil engineer, correct to the nearest dollar? (2 marks)
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Billy worked for 35 hours at the normal hourly rate of pay and for five hours at double time. He earned $561.60 in total for this work.
What was the normal hourly rate of pay?
Su-Lin pays a monthly contribution of 5% of her salary into a superannuation fund. Her salary is
What is the amount of Su-Lin’s monthly contribution? (2 marks)
Jo qualifies for both Rent Assistance and Youth Allowance and receives a fortnightly payment from the government.
Rent Assistance is $119.40 per fortnight.
The maximum Youth Allowance is $402.70 per fortnight. It is reduced by 50 cents in the dollar for any income earned over $236 per fortnight.
Jo earns $300 per fortnight from a part-time job.
What is the total payment Jo receives each fortnight from the government?
An enterprise agreement has the following annual salary arrangements:
George's employer pays 6% more than the enterprise agreement. He is on Step 3 and receives an allowance for Leader 2.
What is George's gross monthly pay?
Luke's normal rate of pay is $24.80 per hour. In one week he worked 14 hours at the normal rate, 4 hours at time-and-a-half, and 3 .5 hours at double time. He was also paid a wet weather allowance of $50 for the week.
What was his pay for the week?