A firm says it cut its labor costs by 35 percent between 2014 and 2019. Workers were paid a wage rate, including benefits, of $80 an hour in 2014 and $58 an hour in 2019. If the CPI was 202 in 2014 and 218 in 2019, did the real wage rate fall by more or less than 35 percent?

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60