Alexander Wilson operates Metroplex Courier and Delivery Service. The company has four employees who are paid on an hourly basis. During the workweek beginning December 15 and ending December 21, 20X1, employees worked the number of hours shown below. Information about their hourly rates, marital status, and withholding allowances also appears below, along with their cumulative earnings for the year prior to the December 1521 payroll period. Consider any hours worked beyond 40 in the week as overtime hours and overtime pay at one and one-half times their regular hourly rate.

	Hours			Regular				Marital			Withholding					Cumulative
Employee	Worked			Hourly Rate				Status			Allowances					Earnings
Gloria Bahamon		47			$	16.70			M				4				$	32,860
Alex Garcia		43				28.50			S				1					57,300
Ron Price		49				26.90			M				3					53,972
Sara Russell		40				13.70			S				0					26,620

Required:

2. Compute the regular, overtime, and gross earnings for each employee. Enter the figures in the payroll register.
3. Compute the amount of social security tax to be withheld from each employees gross earnings. Assume a 6.2 percent social security rate on the first $122,700 earned by the employee during the year. Enter the figures in the payroll register.
4. Compute the amount of Medicare tax to be withheld from each employees gross earnings. Assume a 1.45 percent Medicare tax rate on all salaries and wages earned by the employee during the year. Enter the figures in the payroll register.
5. Determine the amount of federal income tax to be withheld from each employees total earnings. Use the tax tables in Figure 10.2a & Figure 10.2b to determine the withholding for Russell. Withholdings are $112.00 for Bahamon, $323.00 for Garcia, and $258.00 for Price. Enter the figures in the payroll register.
6. Compute the net amount due to each employee and enter the figures in the payroll register.
7. Bahamon and Russell are office workers. Garcia and Price are delivery workers.
8. Prepare a general journal entry to record the payroll for the week ended December 21, 20X1.
9. Prepare a general journal entry on December 23 to summarize payment of wages for the week.

Analyze: What percentage of total taxable wages was delivery wages?