A furniture company uses $13,200$ corrugated boxes in $22$ working days. It takes $2$ days' lead time to get more boxes. Safety stock is $900$ boxes. a. How many boxes are used daily? b. What is the reorder point?

Marc Bishop worked $18$ hours last week at a dry cleaning store at a pay rate of $\$ 6.65$ an hour. His employer must pay these legally required taxes on Marc's pay: $7.65\%$ FICA; unemployment tax, $3.4 \%$; worker's compensation, $0.5 \%$. a. What was the total of required taxes on Marc's pay? b. What was the dry cleaner's total cost of hiring Marc for the week?

The total gross wages paid last year to $240$ employees of Griffin Manufacturing were $\$ 10,080,000$. The cost of employee benefits to Griffin was $36.3 \%$ of wages. By getting a different health insurance plan, Griffin can reduce its employee benefits cost by $1.4 \%$ of wages. a. What amount did Griffin spend to pay for employee benefits last year? b. Based on last year's wages, how much less could Griffin expect to pay for employee benefits this year because of the change in health insurance?

Cully Hermann earned $\$ 38,126$ last year and received $27.5 \%$ of his wages in basic benefits. In addition. Cully put $\$ 960$ into an optional retirement savings plan last year. Cully's employer matches each employee's contribution to the savings program at a rate of $50 \%$. a. What was the total cost of Cully's benefits to the employer? b. What was the employer's annual cost of Cully's employment?

Clement Siegfried's hourly pay rate was $\$ 11.80$ on December $31$. On January $1$, he received a $0.65 \%$ COLA. a. Find his hourly pay rate on January $1$. b. On April $1$, Clement received a $1.1\%$ COLA. Find the increase to his hourly pay rate. c. Find his new pay rate on April $1$.

Salaried workers at Coulter $\&$ Barnes had average annual wages of $\$ 38,200$ last year. On January $1$, their wages were adjusted for last year's $3.7 \%$ rise in the CPI. On average, how much should salaried workers expect to earn this year if they receive no pay increases other than a COLA?

Two years ago, the $152$ employees of Olson Glass Works received profit-sharing checks averaging $\$ 1,281$. Last year $168$ employees' profit-sharing checks averaged $\$ 1,762$. What total amount did Olson Glass Works pay out in profit sharing in the past two years?

In addition to a $\$ 215,000$-a-year salary, the CEO of Perkins Entertainment receives $3 \%$ of the company's annual profits. For the year, Perkins reported profits of $\$ 1,710,000$. a. What amount of profit sharing should the CEO expect to receive? b. What total compensation should the CEO expect to receive for the year?

Arkady Restaurants sets aside $5 \%$ of its annual profits to share equally with managers of its $15$ restaurants. Last year, Arkady's profit was $\$ 1,800,000$. a. What total amount of profit will managers share? b. What amount of profit will each manager receive?

Gail Marketing Group shared $\$ 340,000$ of its profit for the year with $28$ marketing staff. What amount of profit sharing did each marketing staff member get, to the nearest dollar?

Ready-Now Software, in its third year of operation, decided to give employee bonuses based on length of service. First-year employees get $2.5 \%$, second-year employees get $4.5 \%$, and third-year employees get $7 \%$ of their gross wages for last year. Gabriel Medina earned $\$ 72,635$ last year and has been with Ready-Now since it opened for business. What bonus will Gabriel receive?

By stressing teamwork, $62$ employees of Bidwell Manufacturing improved the efficiency of the factory and cut costs by $\$ 480,000$. Bidwell's owner decided to give a bonus of $50 \%$ of the cost savings to his employees. a. What total amount will be paid in bonuses to employees? b. What bonus will each employee receive, to the nearest dollar?

Each of six employees in the shipping department received a $5 \%$ bonus based on their suggestion that saved their employer $\$ 72,000$ last year. Their average annual pay is $\$ 36,740$. a. What average bonus did they receive? b. What total bonus was paid to the six employees? c. What percent of the amount the employer saved was paid as a bonus to the six employees, to the nearest tenth percent?

For having a perfect work attendance record, Magdelena Santiago's employer paid her a bonus of $1.5 \%$ of her annual gross pay of $\$ 41,355$. What was the amount of the bonus?