Your average hourly employee earns a base wage rate of $30/hour, and works a 40 hour standard work week. Each employee also puts in an average 5 hours of overtime per month at 2x base hourly rate. Employer taxes and workers compensation insurance is 12% of wages plus overtime pay, health insurance costs the company $400/month per employee and you also provide employees vyth parking public transportation passes that cost you 51000/year. What is your burden rate" (total non base wages as a percent of base wages?) 28 32% 21 16% O4OX