1. What would be the dollar impact if the 5 percent increase planned for January 1 were reduced to 3.5 percent and postponed until April 1?
2. As an alternate cost-saving strategy, determine the annual savings if all hourly staff were reduced from 40 to 37.5 hours as their standard workweek. Consider the top three staff—director, compliance specialist, and registries coordinator—as salaried and thus unaffected by the workweek change.
3. Determine the total dollar impact if both of the foregoing strategies were implemented together. Remember that the pay increase affects everyone but that the 37.5-hour week affects just hourly staff.