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 March 6th, 2018, 02:17 PM #1 Senior Member   Joined: Feb 2016 From: seattle Posts: 377 Thanks: 10 Find net pay Sue Tomlin is paid a salary of ​\$440 per week plus 7​% of all sales over​ \$5000. She is single and claims two withholding allowances each one at 70.19 . Her deductions include​ FICA, Medicare, federal​ withholding, state disability​ insurance, state​ withholding, credit union savings of ​\$50​, a Salvation Army contribution of ​\$10​, and dues of ​\$15 to a professional sales association. Find her net pay for a week in April during which she has sales of ​\$12,938.00 with returns and allowances of ​\$417.58. Use the percentage method of​ withholding, a FICA rate of 6.2​%, a Medicare rate of 1.45​%, an SDI rate of 1​%, and a state withholding tax of 3.4​%. if okay to ask it here I can then try to share the other information, tables, and what I am thinking my steps would be...if not allowed here thanks for those that at least looked...I have just been going around in circles for hrs now on this one... Last edited by greg1313; March 7th, 2018 at 04:32 PM. March 6th, 2018, 02:27 PM #2 Math Team Joined: Jul 2011 From: Texas Posts: 2,885 Thanks: 1504 Quote:  Originally Posted by GIjoefan1976 Sue Tomlin is paid a salary of ​\$440 per week plus 7​% of all sales over​ \$5000. She is single and claims two withholding allowances each one at \$70.19 . Her deductions include​ FICA, Medicare, federal​ withholding, state disability​ insurance, state​ withholding, credit union savings of ​\$50​, a Salvation Army contribution of ​\$10​, and dues of ​\$15 to a professional sales association. Find her net pay for a week in April during which she has sales of ​\$12,938.00 with returns and allowances of ​\$417.58. Use the percentage method of​ withholding, a FICA rate of 6.2​%, a Medicare rate of 1.45​%, an SDI rate of 1​%, and a state withholding tax of 3.4​%. if okay to ask it here I can then try to share the other information, tables, and what I am thinking my steps would be...if not allowed here thanks for those that at least looked...I have just been going around in circles for hrs now on this one... edited dollar signs to disable Latex ...  March 6th, 2018, 05:29 PM #3 Senior Member Joined: May 2016 From: USA Posts: 1,310 Thanks: 551 I see no reason why it is not suitable to post this problem in this forum. Admittedly, it is just a problem in arithmetic, but it is far more convoluted arithmetic than would be posted in a normal arithmetic forum. I personally seldom give answers, especially on such a time consuming problem, but I shall be happy to review your work. Thanks from GIjoefan1976 March 7th, 2018, 05:09 AM #4 Math Team Joined: Oct 2011 From: Ottawa Ontario, Canada Posts: 14,310 Thanks: 1023 Quote:  Originally Posted by GIjoefan1976 Sue Tomlin is paid a salary of ​440 per week plus 7​% of all sales over​ 5000. She is single and claims two withholding allowances each one at 70.19 . Her deductions include​ FICA, Medicare, federal​ withholding, state disability​ insurance, state​ withholding, credit union savings of ​50​, a Salvation Army contribution of ​10​, and dues of ​15 to a professional sales association. Find her net pay for a week in April during which she has sales of ​12,938.00 with returns and allowances of ​417.58. Use the percentage method of​ withholding, a FICA rate of 6.2​%, a Medicare rate of 1.45​%, an SDI rate of 1​%, and a state withholding tax of 3.4​%. Simplifying your problem a bit: Sue Tomlin is paid a salary of ​440 per week plus 7​% of all sales over​ 5000 during the week. She is single and claims a withholding allowance of 140.38. Her deductions include​ FICA, Medicare, federal​ withholding, state disability​ insurance, and state​ withholding. Also deducted is ​75 (credit union savings).**** Find her net pay for a week during which she has sales of ​12,938.00 with returns and allowances of ​417.58. Use the percentage method of​ withholding, a FICA rate of 6.2​%, a Medicare rate of 1.45​%, an SDI rate of 1​%, and a state withholding tax of 3.4​%. ****You can forget about this one while doing the net pay calculation: just deduct it after everything else is done. Agree? Last edited by Denis; March 7th, 2018 at 05:25 AM. March 7th, 2018, 09:50 AM #5 Senior Member Joined: Feb 2016 From: seattle Posts: 377 Thanks: 10 Quote:  Originally Posted by JeffM1 I see no reason why it is not suitable to post this problem in this forum. Admittedly, it is just a problem in arithmetic, but it is far more convoluted arithmetic than would be posted in a normal arithmetic forum. I personally seldom give answers, especially on such a time consuming problem, but I shall be happy to review your work. Thanks JeffM1 I thank you for that...I will post what I was thinking I would do later this afternoon!!! March 7th, 2018, 10:03 AM #6 Senior Member Joined: Feb 2016 From: seattle Posts: 377 Thanks: 10 Quote:  Originally Posted by Denis Simplifying your problem a bit: Sue Tomlin is paid a salary of ​440 per week plus 7​% of all sales over​ 5000 during the week. She is single and claims a withholding allowance of 140.38. Her deductions include​ FICA, Medicare, federal​ withholding, state disability​ insurance, and state​ withholding. Also deducted is ​75 (credit union savings).**** Find her net pay for a week during which she has sales of ​12,938.00 with returns and allowances of ​417.58. Use the percentage method of​ withholding, a FICA rate of 6.2​%, a Medicare rate of 1.45​%, an SDI rate of 1​%, and a state withholding tax of 3.4​%. ****You can forget about this one while doing the net pay calculation: just deduct it after everything else is done. Agree? Hello Denis!!! Thanks times 2!!!! yes I agree so I know the first thing I am unsure about is...I believe I have to subtract the allowances of 417.58 from the 12,938.00 then multiply the now 12520.42 x .07 so we get her commission of 876.43 since it has been rounded up now we add her salary of$​440 to 876.43 to get 1316.43 then in order to find out her federal withholding we subtract the 140.38 from her salary to get 1176.05 and then compare this to the table I have / we have to find out what to subtract from the original salary? and then multiply that new number by the percentage given on the table?

 March 7th, 2018, 11:12 AM #7 Math Team   Joined: Oct 2011 From: Ottawa Ontario, Canada Posts: 14,310 Thanks: 1023 Well, I'm certainly no better than you at "payroll" processing. My buddy Jeff seems to be familiar; perhaps he will keep his promise to help you with this...but be careful: he may at same time direct the 75 bucks savings deduction to be directly deposited to his account Thanks from GIjoefan1976
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 Originally Posted by Denis Well, I'm certainly no better than you at "payroll" processing. My buddy Jeff seems to be familiar; perhaps he will keep his promise to help you with this...but be careful: he may at same time direct the 75 bucks savings deduction to be directly deposited to his account

ah Okay well thanks for at least giving a comment and for helping in the ways you did

I am working on the same problem again but different numbers so maybe if I give those numbers and the answer here of what I got and the number they got... it will help even more...

March 7th, 2018, 12:19 PM   #9
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so the new problem I am working on is the same type of problem but some numbers have changed...her salary is now 480.00 her sales are now 11068.00 with returns of 488.65 but from what I can tell everything else is the same so the numbers I am getting are...

her salary of 480.00 + her percentage of sales 424.76 gives her a salary of 904.76

her with holding allowances are still 140.38.

so this makes her new salary 764.38

if I am reading the table right...

we subtract 696.00 from 764.38 = 68.38 then * .25 = 17.10 rounded up....

so until I get help finding my mistakes I want to go like this...

97.70 = federal withholding
56.10 = Fica
13.12 = mdeicare
9.05 = SDI
30.76 = state withholding
75.00 = other deductions

then subtracting this from her salary I would think her net pay would be 623.03
but the computer is telling me the answer should be 601.51 plus or minus .01 so I don't understand why I am over so much?
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Last edited by GIjoefan1976; March 7th, 2018 at 12:32 PM. Reason: new numbers...

 March 7th, 2018, 03:56 PM #10 Math Team   Joined: Oct 2011 From: Ottawa Ontario, Canada Posts: 14,310 Thanks: 1023 Can you EXPLAIN these two items: withholding allowance: 140.38 returns and allowances: 488.65 Seems to me that the 488.65 is a sales reduction, so sales = 11068.00 - 488.65 = 10579.35 Did you use the 140.38 as a reduction to total income before calculating the federal tax? That's what I gathered from googling... I'm not familiar with your income tax rules!!

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