Your Employer Has Asked You to Start Working Overtime and Has

question 182

Multiple Choice

Your employer has asked you to start working overtime and has offered to pay $18 per hour for every hour you work beyond forty hours a week. The wage rate for each of the first forty hours will continue to be the usual $15 per hour. In terms of dollars, what is the marginal benefit of working each hour of overtime?

• A) $3.00
• B) $18.00
• C) $15.00
• D) zero

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