1. Jo is looking for a new part-time job as a plumber. She responds to a classified ad for a position that pays 44.9K. What would her weekly salary be to the nearest cent if she gets this job?
2. Fred got a new job through the Hunt Employment Service. The job pays $53K per year, and the agency fee is equal to 30% of one month’s pay. How much must Frank pay the agency?
3. Carole worked her 40 regular hours last week plus 6 overtime hours at the time-and-a-half rate. Her gross pay was $463.25. What was her hourly rate?
5. Tania earns $14.50 per hour at the Brinkley Florist. She regularly works 40 hours per week. She is paid time-and-a-half for each hour of overtime work. Last week she worked 47.5 hours. What was her gross pay for the week?
6. Patrick earns x dollars per hour for his regular 40 hours per week. He also works three hours overtime each week, at a time-and-a-half rate. Express his annual salary algebraically.
7. An author writes a computer self-help manual that sells for x dollars each. He received a bonus of $1,075 to sign with his publisher, and he receives 15% commission on each book sale. Express the total amount of income he earns from selling y books algebraically.
8. Nick received a total piecework paycheck of $381.81. He receives 91 cents per unit produced. How many units did he produce?
9. Daron works at Riggs National Bank. His employer offers him a pension retirement plan that will be 1.40% of his average salary for the last five years of employment for every year worked. Daron is planning to retire at the end of this year after 23 years of employment. His salaries for the last five years is: $92,000; $92,800; $99,000; $100,500; and $105,000. Calculate Anton’s pension.
10. Gavin contributes 18% of the total cost of his individual health care coverage. He pays $29.60 per week towards this contribution. What is the total value of Gavin’s health care coverage for the year?
11. In Ron’s state, the unemployment compensation is calculated by finding the total of the quarterly wages of two consecutive quarters and dividing that amount by 25. The weekly unemployment amount is 45% of that figure. In the quarter consisting of January, February, and March, Ron made a total of $19,754. In the quarter consisting of April, May, and June, he made a total of $22,974. Find Ron’s weekly unemployment amount.
12. In 2008, the Social Security percentage was 6.2% for the first $103,000 earned. The Medicare percentage was 1.44% of your entire salary. Darby made $142,000 in 2008.
a. Write the combined taxes, y, as a piecewise function where x represents the income. b. How much did Darby pay in Social Security tax?
c. How much did Darby pay in Medicare tax?
13. The percentages at the turn of the 21st century are shown in the table. Ray worked at the same job for those three years making $80,400 without any increase in salary.

Social Security
Maximum Taxable Income
Medicare
Maximum Taxable Income
2003
6.2%
$88,400
1.45%
All Income
2004
6.2%
$92,900
1.45%
All Income
2005
6.2%
$96,300
1.45%
All Income
a. Calculate his Social Security and Medicare taxes for those years.
b. Calculate the percent of his salary for the combined taxes in each year. What do you notice?