Breakin Away Company has three employees—a consultant, a computer programmer, and an administrator. The following payroll information is available for each employee:
Consultant
Computer Programmer
Administrator
Regular earnings rate
$4,000 per week
$60 per hour
$50 per hour
Overtime earnings rate*
Not applicable
1.5 times hourly rate
2 times hourly rate
Number of withholding allowances
2
1
2
*For hourly employees, overtime is paid for hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week.
For the current pay period, the computer programmer worked 50 hours and the administrator worked 48 hours. The federal income tax withheld for all three employees, who are single, can be determined from the wage bracket withholding table in Exhibit 2. Assume further that the social security tax rate was 6.0%, the Medicare tax rate was 1.5%, and one withholding allowance is $75.
Determine the gross pay and the net pay for each of the three employees for the current pay period. If required, round your answers to two decimal places.
Transcribed Image Text:Calculate Payroll
Breakin Away Company has three employees-a consultant, a computer programmer, and an administrator. The following payroll information is available for each
employee:
Consultant
Computer Programmer
Administrator
Regular earnings rate
$4,000 per week
$60 per hour
$50 per hour
Overtime earnings rate*
Not applicable
1.5 times hourly rate
2 times hourly rate
Number of withholding allowances
1
*For hourly employees, overtime is paid for hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week.
For the current pay period, the computer programmer worked 50 hours and the administrator worked 48 hours. The federal income tax withheld for all three employees,
who are single, can be determined from the wage bracket withholding table in Exhibit 2. Assume further that the social security tax rate was 6.0%, the Medicare tax rate
was 1.5%, and one withholding allowance is $75.
Determine the gross pay and the net pay for each of the three employees for the current pay period. If required, round your answers to two decimal places.
Consultant
Computer Programmer
Administrator
Gross pay
$4
4,000 V
3,300
2,800 V
Net pay
$
2,842.84 X
2,395.34 | х
2,080.84 X
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Transcribed Image Text:EXHIBIT 2
Table for Percentage Method of Withholding WEEKLY Payroll Period
Wage Bracket
Withholding Table
(a) SINGLE person (including head of household) –
If the amount of wages (after
subtracting withholding allowances) The amount of income tax
is:
Not over $43....
Over-
to withhold is:
. $0
But not over-
of excess over-
-$222 .. $0.00 plus 10%
-$767 .. $17.90 plus 15%
-$1,796 .. $99.65 plus 25%
-$3,700 .. $356.90 plus 28%
-$7,992 .. $890.02 plus 33%
-$8,025 .. $2,306.38 plus 35%
$2,317.93 plus 39.6%
$43
$43
$222
$767
$222
$767
McGrath wage bracket
$1,796
$3,700
$7,992
$8,025
$1,796
$3,700
$7,992
$8,025
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