About this video
Diego worked 18 hours and was paid $115, but minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. He should have been paid 18 x $7.25 = $130.50, so his employer owes $15.50 in back pay.
You'll be able to
- calculate the minimum pay owed for a number of hours.
- find back pay as the difference between what is owed and what was paid.
Key words
- Back pay
- Money an employer owes a worker to make up for being underpaid.
- Minimum wage
- The lowest hourly pay allowed by law; here $7.25 an hour.
Transcript
- [Lecturer] We're told that Diego works as a parking lot attendant. He works 18 hours and received $115 in weekly pay, or he worked 18 hours. The minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. What is Diego's back pay for the week? Pause this video and have a go at that. All right, so the key here is, is that he needs to be paid the minimum wage.
So what he needs to be paid is 18 hours times $7.25 per hour, per hour. And we can use a calculator for this. So if we were to multiply that, we have 18 times $7.25. So that's how much he should be getting paid if we wanted to meet the minimum wage for 18 hours.
But $115 is that what he actually got paid. So the difference between the two is what the employer needs to make up in back pay. So let's just subtract 115 from this here. So minus 115 gets us to $15.50. That's how much back pay Diego is deserving of, or what he needs to get paid.
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