Janice Wong receives an annual salary of $42,536, which is paid weekly. Her normal work week is 40 hours, and she is paid time and a half for all overtime. She is single and claims two withholding allowances. Her deductions include FICA, Medicare, federal withholding, state disability insurance, state withholding at 4.4%, credit union payments of$125, retirement deductions of $75, association dues of$12, and a Diabetes Association contribution of $25. Find the total gross earnings for a week in which she works 52 hours.

Find the federal withholding tax for the employee. Use the wage bracket method.

Earth Plus pays workers $.48 per container for sorting recyclable materials. Find the daily gross earnings for the worker.

Sarah Brynski is busy running a Starbucks and thinking about inventory, making sure the store looks great, ensuring good service, hiring good people, motivating employees, maintaining inventories, calculating wages, deducting correct amounts for the various taxes, and getting the payroll done on time every week. She is also interested in finding ways to increase sales since part of her income is based on sales. Overtime is paid for more than 40 hours a week, the state tax rate is $3.07 \%$, and the state disability income rate (SDI) is $1 \%$.

Find the amount Brynski must send to the Internal Revenue Service for these employees.

Fire Fighting Equipment pays salespeople as follows: $452 per week plus a commission of .9% on sales between$15,000 and $25,000, with 1.1% paid on sales in excess of$25,000. Find the gross earnings of the salesperson. (No commission is paid on the first $15,000 of sales.)