A company has 100 employees who work 160 hours a month each. Each worker earns $43 per hour. There is a profitable project the company would like to start, but it would require an additional 12,000 working hours within three months to be completed, and all the employees are fully loaded with other projects. The company does not want to hire new staff; they would like the project to be completed by the current workforce instead. Given that the wage elasticity of labor supply is 0.95, calculate the hourly wage the company should offer its employees to encourage them to work on the new project. Use the midpoint method and round to two decimal places throughout your calculations.

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A company has 100 employees who work 160 hours a month each. Each worker earns $43 per hour. There is a profitable project the company would like to start, but it would require an additional 12,000 working hours within three months to be completed, and all the employees are fully loaded with other projects. The company does not want to hire new staff; they would like the project to be completed by the current workforce instead.

Given that the wage elasticity of labor supply is 0.95, calculate the hourly wage the company should offer its employees to encourage them to work on the new project. Use the midpoint method and round to two decimal places throughout your calculations.

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