Doing the Math - Week One

Items listed: 7
Items sold: 1

OK, perhaps not the most glorious of results, but it could be worse. Silver lining is that there is one less thing taking up space in the house.

Final bid for sold item: $12.50
S/H charged: 12.00
Total Item sold income: 24.50

Insertion fee: .35
Final value fee: .66
PayPal fee: 1.01
Shipping actual: 14.10 (messed that up a bit I did)
Total Item sold costs: 16.12
Adjusted Item sold income: $8.38

Not so bad, all things considered. I mean, the Mrs. and I could probably get a meal at Wendy's for that. But wait, there's more!

Insertion fees Not sold items: 3.20 (one of them had a reserve price)
Adjusted week's income: $5.18

Uhm, yeah. Maybe that meal is not an option. Good thing this is just a project and not a career. Actually, let's look at that possibility.

Week's income: $5.18
Standard work week: 40 hours
Hourly wage: $0.1295
State's cut: 0.259
Fed's cut: 1.295
Other fed's cut: 0.3885
Take home: $3.24

It seems I need to ask for a raise...