Question

Your salary is $65,788. If you work fifty 40-hour weeks in a year, what is your hourly wage?

Answer 1

$31.63/hr

Explanation:

Given parameters:

Yearly salary = $65788

Number hours worked per week = 40hrs

Unknown:

Hourly wage = ?

Solution:

The hourly wage is found by dividing the yearly salary by the total number of hours worked per year.

There are 52 weeks in a year;

Number of hours worked per year = 52 x 40 = 2080hrs

Hourly wage per year =
`(65788)/(2080)` = $31.63/hr