Answer this word problem.

Question

An executive in an engineering firm earns a monthly salary plus christmas bonus of $85,000, if she earns $97,300 per year, what is her monthly salary?

Answer 1

12S + 85,000 = 97,300

12S = 97,300-85,000 =12,300

S = 12,300/12 = $1,025 = monthly salary

super chintzy salary, illegal, less than minimum wage (unless it's part time work), but super generous bonus

40 hours a week, at least 160 hours per month, 1025/160 = $6.41 per hour < minimum wage nationwide

Although professionals, executives tend to work for a fixed salary independent of hours worked with no "overtime" and no deduction for less than full time hours. Some are just figurehead positions, which critics claim Hunter had in the Ukraine or China, with salaries and bonuses independent of any or no hours worked.

Whether critics are right or not, it happens for top level executives who seem highly overpaid, even if they earned the compensation in some mannter.