Upper-Intermediate - Calculating Salaries (D1941)

A: 魏小姐,你忙吗?
Wèi xiǎojie, nǐ máng ma?
Ms. Wei, are you busy?
B: 还好。什么事啊?你说吧。
hái hǎo. shénme shì a? nǐ shuō ba.
Not too busy. What is it? Go ahead.
A: 我刚收到五月份的工资单,觉得有点不对劲儿。
wǒ gāng shōudào wǔyuèfèn de gōngzīdān, juéde yǒudiǎnr bù duìjìnr.
I just got the payslip for my salary during the month of May and feel like it's a bit off.
B: 我看看。你的基本工资是六千,对吧?
wǒ kàn kan. nǐ de jīběngōngzī shì liùqiān, duìba?
I'll take a look. Your base salary is 6000, right?
A: 嗯。
ng4.
Yeah.
B: 你五月份请了三天事假。事假是要扣工资的。
nǐ wǔyuèfèn qǐng le sān tiān shìjià. shìjià shì yào kòu gōngzī de.
You took three days of personal leave in May. Personal leave is deducted from your salary.
A: 我知道,可是怎么扣了这么多?是怎么算的?
wǒ zhīdào, kěshì zěnme kòu le zhème duō? shì zěnme suàn de?
I know, but how has this much been deducted? How is it calculated?
B: 劳动法规定,每个月的全勤天数是21.75天。不管是大月小月,都以这个为标准。
láodòngfǎ guīdìng, měi ge yuè de quánqín tiānshù shì èrshíyīdiǎnqīwǔ tiān. bùguǎn shì dàyuè xiǎoyuè, dōu yǐ zhè ge wéi biāozhǔn.
Labor law states that every month consists of 21.75 work days. Regardless of how long a month is, it's always calculated according to this standard.
A: 太复杂了,你就告诉我具体的计算公式。打个比方,我请了一天的事假,要怎么扣?
tài fùzá le, nǐ jiù gàosu wǒ jùtǐ de jìsuàn gōngshì. dǎ ge bǐfāng, wǒ qǐng le yītiān de shìjià, yào zěnme kòu?
That's too complicated. Just tell me the specific formula to calculate it. For example, if I take one day of personal leave, how is pay deducted?
B: 请一天就是,你的基本工资6000,除以21.75,等于275.86。请三天的话,在这个数字上乘以3,就是827.59。
qǐng yītiān jiùshì, nǐ de jīběngōngzī liùqiān, chúyǐ èrshíyīdiǎnqīwǔ, děngyú liǎngbǎiqīshíwǔ diǎn bāliù. qǐng sān tiān dehuà, zài zhè ge shùzì shàng chéngyǐ sān, jiùshì bābǎièrshíqīdiǎnwǔjiǔ.
For one day off, it's your base salary of 6000 divided by 21.75, which equals 275.86. For three days, multiply this number by 3 and you get 827.59.
A: 怪不得,亏大了,早知道就不请假了。对了,我五月份加了十个小时的班,加班工资是怎么算的?
guàibude, kuīdà le, zǎo zhīdào jiù bù qǐngjià le. duìle, wǒ wǔyuèfèn jiā le shí gè xiǎoshí de bān, jiābān gōngzī shì zěnme suàn de?
No wonder it was so much. If I'd known I wouldn't have taken the time off. Oh, I worked 10 hours of overtime in May. How is overtime pay calculated?
B: 晚上加班按1.5倍来计算。计算公式是,6000除以21.75,再除以8。
wǎnshang jiābān àn yīdiǎnwǔ bèi lái jìsuàn. jìsuàn gōngshì shì, liùqiān chúyǐ èrshíyīdiǎnqīwǔ, zài chúyǐ bā.
Evening overtime is calculated at one and a half times normal pay. The formula is 6000 divided by 21.75, then divided by 8.
A: 8是每天工作八小时?
bā shì měitiān gōngzuò bāxiǎoshí?
Eight represents the eight hours in every work day?
B: 对,再乘以你的加班时间,10。再乘以1.5。就是你的加班工资。
duì, zài chéngyǐ nǐ de jiābān shíjiān, shí. zài chéngyǐ yīdiǎnwǔ. jiùshì nǐ de jiābān gōngzī.
That's right. Then multiply the number by your overtime hours, 10, then multiply by 1.5. It equals 517.2. That's your overtime pay.
A: 哦。原来是这样算的。我明白了。谢谢啊!
ò. yuánlái shì zhèyàng suàn de. wǒ míngbai le. xièxie a!
Ah, so that's how it's calculated. I understand. Thank you!

Key Vocabulary

工资单 gōngzīdān payslip
不对劲儿 bù duìjìnr ‘something not quite right‘
基本工资 jīběngōngzī base salary
事假 shìjià personal leave
kòu to deduct
劳动法 láodòngfǎ labor law
全勤 quánqín full work attendance
公式 gōngshì formula
除以 chúyǐ to divide
等于 děngyú equal to
乘以 chéngyǐ to multiply
亏大了 kuīdà le ‘to suffer a great loss’
以……为…… yǐ……wéi…… to take...regard as...

Supplementary Vocabulary

出勤 chūqín to attend work
jiā to add
jiǎn to subtract
加减乘除 jiājiǎnchéngchú add, subtract, multiply and divide
吃亏 chīkuī to suffer a loss

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