Calculate Split Bonus based on days worked

Question

There are 5 employees that need to split a 1740 bonus based on the number of days they worked. Employee 1 worked 17/19 days, employee 2 11/9 days, employee 3 9/19 days, employee 4 10/19 days, and employee 5 1/19 days. What formula do I use to calculate their bonus amounts?

Answer 1

To me the easiest approach is to answer "how many total days were worked?". I get 48. Divide the bonus money by total days worked and that's how much is paid for each day worked (bpd). Go back to the individual workers and multiply days worked by bpd and that's the bonus for each worker.