To figure out how much overtime you earned, first we need to calculate the total number of hours you worked throughout the week.
The work week is defined as Monday through Friday. You worked 8 hours each day from Monday to Thursday and 10 hours on Friday. To get the total number of hours worked in a week, we add the hours of each day together.
So, work hours per day from Monday to Thursday is:
8 hours/day * 4 days = 32 hours
Adding Friday's 10 hours to this:
32 hours + 10 hours = 42 hours
You thus worked a total of 42 hours during the week.
The company pays overtime for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week. To find the number of hours you were in overtime, we will subtract the threshold from total hours of work.
So, overtime is calculated as:
Total hours worked - Overtime threshold = Overtime
Therefore:
42 hours - 40 hours = 2 hours
Hence, you earned 2 hours of overtime.