Question

LaTonya was just hired as an engineer for an electric company. She will make a salary of $80,000 a year.

How much of LaTonya’s salary will be taxed at the 10 percent rate?



How much of LaTonya’s salary will be taxed at the 28 percent rate?

Answer 1

I don’t have the tax‑bracket table you’re using. Can you tell me the income ranges for the 10% and 28% brackets from your book or worksheet?

If you don’t have it handy, here’s how you compute it once you do:

- Amount taxed at 10% = min(LaTonya’s salary, upper limit of the 10% bracket) − lower limit of the 10% bracket (usually the lower limit is $0, so this is often just min(salary, upper limit of 10% bracket)).
- Amount taxed at 28% = max(0, min(salary, upper limit of 28% bracket) − lower limit of the 28% bracket).
(If the 28% bracket has no upper limit, then it’s max(0, salary − lower limit of 28% bracket).)

Example: if the 10% bracket is $0–$10,000 and the 28% bracket is $50,000 and up, then for a $80,000 salary:
- taxed at 10%: min(80,000, 10,000) = $10,000
- taxed at 28%: 80,000 − 50,000 = $30,000

Give me the actual bracket boundaries and I’ll compute the exact amounts.