Question

Erica Bell earns $27.50 per hour as a specialty chef at Santa Maria Restaurant. If she worked 51 hours last week and was paid time-and-a-half for weekly hours over 40. She also worked on Sunday for 4.5 hours for which she was paid double time. What was her gross pay? (Report to two decimal places)

Answer 1

Gross Pay of Erica is $123.75

Explanation:

We are given

Earning per hour = $27.5

Total working hours = 51

we can divide the following as

first 40 hours + 6.5hrs after first 40 hours + 4.5 hours of Sunday

No of hours worked pay per hour

first 40 hours $27.5

after 6.5 hours 27.5 + 13.75 = $41.25 ( 1.5times )

Sunday 4.5hr 27.5 * 2 = $55 (double)

total = 51hrs $123.75

so Erica gross pay of the week is $123.75