Question

The average pay of employees is $399.44 per week at a local True Value Hardware store. Jay Miller earns $411.11 per week. How much is Jay's pay over the average?

Answer 1

411.11
-399.44
----------
11.67

Answer 2

the average pay of the employees per week = $399.44

Pay of Jay Miller per week = $411.11

The term how much is Jay's pay over the average means is by how many dollars is the pay over the average

so we have

$411.11 - $399.44

= $11.67

Hence Jay Miller's pay per week is $11.67 above the average pay per week