Q. Employee A is a carpenter and normally works 36 hrs per week. The std rate of pay is $3.60 per hour. A premium of 50% of the basic hourly rate is paid for all overtime hours worked. During the last week of Oct, Employee A worked for 42 hours. The overtime hours worked were for the following reasons:
Machine breakdown: 4 Hours To complete a special job at the request of a customer: 2 hours
How much of Employee A’s earnings for the last week of Oct would have been treated as direct wages?
The answer should be $ 140.40 And I’m having $162.20 as answer.
I’m having problems with the calculation of overtime.