Problema Solution

Mary Jo Prenaris is an office manager with gross earnings of $1,600 semimonthly. If her company switches pay schedules from semimonthly to biweekly, what are Mary Jo’s new biweekly gross earnings?

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the number of paychecks semi-monthly:

24


the number of paychecks biweekly:

52/2 = 26


(1600 * 24)/(26) = 1476.92


her biweekly gross earnings would be $1,476.92