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Financial Literacy
Term | Definition |
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Hourly Rate | The amount of money that is charged, paid, or earned for every hour worked. |
Straight-time pay | The usual number of hours and the usual amount of pay for a period of work. |
Gross Income | An individual's total personal income, before accounting for taxes or deductions. |
Overtime Pay | Nonexempt employees may be paid by means of a salary. |
Time and a Half | A rate of pay for overtime work equal to one and one half times the regular hourly wage. |
Double time | A rate of pay equal to double the standard rate, sometimes paid for working on holidays or outside normal working hours. |
Weekly Time Card | A card used with a time clock to record an employee's starting and quitting times each day or on each job. |
Piecework | Work paid for according to the amount produced. |
Salary | A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker. |
Commission | An instruction, command, or duty given to a person or group of people. |
Commission Rate | A fee paid for services, usually a percentage of the total cost. |
Straight Commission | Salesperson compensation method in which only a percentage of the sales volume, but no fixed salary, is paid. |
Graduated Commission | A method of compensation for the sales people where the commission earned as a percentage of sales increases incrementally with the increase in the sales volume. |