Calculating gross pay with overtime

0:00- [Speaker] We're told that Alina works as a receptionist at a fitness center. She earns $18 an hour as a non-exempt employee. The following table shows the hours she worked in a week. Alright, these are the hours she worked. Overtime applies after 40 hours at 1.5 times the regular rate.

0:22What is Alina's gross pay for the week? So, pause this video and have a go at this. So, the key here is we know the hours, we know what she's normally making as an hourly employee, but we know that as a non-exempt employee that overtime is also going to apply to her.

0:44So, what we wanna do is we wanna add up all of the hours she works. The first 40 hours, she would make it $18 an hour, and then anything above that, she would do 1.5 times 18. So, 18 times 1.5 is equal to what? 18 plus nine. That's equal to $27. So, that should be her overtime pay.

1:04So, for the first 40 hours, $18 an hour, and then anything over that, it should be $27 an hour. So, let's get our calculator out and let's add up how many total hours she worked in that week. So, we have a 7.5 plus eight, plus 8.5, plus nine, plus eight, plus five, and then zero.

1:33So, she worked a total of 46 hours. So, that means she should be making $18 an hour for 40 of those hours, and then for the remaining six, she should be making $27 an hour. So, let's figure out what that is. And I'll just remember that in my head, there's 40 hours at 18 and then six hours at $27 an hour.

1:56So, if we do 40 hours times $18 an hour, that's $720. And then plus, and then let me open up a parentheses. We had a surplus or overtime six hours, times $27 an hour. That's 1.5 times her regular hourly wage. And so that's going to be that. And then you add it all together.

2:20Her gross pay for the week should be $882. 882, and we're done.