"Find the withholding tax in each exercise using the tables given.

Total Wages	Martial Status	Withholding Allowances
21. $457.07	Single	1

Brenda Peoples earned $\$43,680$ last year. Her usual work schedule is 50 hours a week. What were her average earnings per hour?

Fred must make a decision about keeping his current job, which he dislikes, or accepting an offer for a new job, which he thinks he would enjoy. His current job pays an hourly rate of $\$12$. Fred works 40 hours a week. At the new job, Fred would earn $\$0.80$ for each item he produces up to 125 pieces per day. For each piece over 125 produced in a day, Fred would receive $\$0.85$. The average production rate is 15 pieces an hour. Because of his experience and skill, Fred believes that he can produce 18 an hour. At the new job, Fred would work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. What is the average weekly pay received by employees at the new job?

You are offered two jobs. One job pays an hourly rate of $\$8.50$, and requires 40 hours of work per week. The second job pays $\$5.25$ per hour plus tips and requires 8 hours per day, 5 days per week. Another employee who does the same job says that he usually earns about $\$50$ per day in tips. Based on the pay scale, which job would you accept, and why?

For each of these piece-rate employees at Dover Industries, find the total pieces produced and the gross pay for the week. Copy and complete the chart.

For each of these piece-rate employees at Dover Industries, find the total pieces produced and the gross pay for the week. Copy and complete the chart.

A waitress in an exclusive restaurant presented a food and beverage check in the amount of $\$340$ to customers at a table. The customers decided to leave a $20\%$ tip. What tip amount did the waitress receive?

Zeline Vanderbilt is a waitress in an upscale restaurant. On Friday she waited on $12$ groups of customers who spent an average of $\$ 186$ per group. Her tips averaged $18 \%$ of the total amount spent by all groups of customers that day. What were Zeline's tip income earnings that day?

The per diem employees listed below worked the number of days indicated in July. Find the gross pay earned by each employee.

Vernon Grimes produced these pieces during a week: Monday, $112$; Tuesday, $107$; Wednesday, $121$; Thursday, $115$; and Friday, $97$. If his employer pays $\$ 0.875$ per piece produced, what would be Vernon's gross pay for the week?

Custom Castings, Inc. pays its employees on a piece-rate basis of $\$ 1.28$ for each acceptable piece produced. What gross pay was earned by an employee whose production of $483$ pieces included $9$ pieces that did not pass inspection?

The Tracer family expects their income next year to be $81,500. Assume that they budget the same percents for each expense category as the y did last year. Show the percent, rounded to the nearest half percent, and the amount of money they will spend during the year for each of the following.

Food

Genaro Torres makes $400 per week. He receives a 2% raise. He is single and claims zero withholding allowances. Federal income taxes and FICA are withheld from his gross pay. How much does his gross pay increase with his raise? How much does his net pay increase?

In the number 7,385, what digit is in each of these places?

thousands place