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FinAlg C6
Financial Algebra C6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| employment agency | a business that has lists of job openings and charges a fee to find jobs for people |
| fee paid | when the employer, instead of the employee, pays the fee to an employment agency |
| resume | a short accounting of a job-seeker's education and qualifications for employment |
| Form W-4 Employee's Withholding Allowance | a form that is filled out by a new employee that gives directions to the government on how much money in taxes to deduct from an employee's pay |
| benefits | |
| discount | |
| weekly | |
| biweekly | |
| semimonthly | |
| monthly | twelve times a year |
| direct deposit | |
| hourly rate | |
| regular hours | |
| overtime hours | the extra hours an employee works beyond their regular hours |
| overtime hourly rate | the hourly wage an employee receives for any overtime hours |
| time-and-a-half overtime | |
| double-time overtime | |
| gross pay | |
| minimum wage | the hourly rate that federal law allow as the least hourly rate be paid to an employee in the United States |
| commission | |
| royalty | |
| pieceworker | a type of worker who is paid for each item the employee produces |
| piecework rate | the set amount of money that a worker receives for each item the individual produces |
| Social Security | |
| Federal Insurance Contributions Act | the federal act that established Social Security insurance |
| FICA tax | the money that an employee and employer contribute to Social Security and Medicare |
| Social Security tax | |
| Medicare tax | |
| maximum taxable income | the maximum income on which a person must pay Social Security tax in a given year |
| Social Security number |