Sandhill Company’s payroll for December 2017 is summarized below.

			Amount Subject to Unemployment Taxes
Payroll		Wages Due		Federal		State
Headquarters		$210,000		$27,000		$7,000
Sales Office #1		57,000		7,000		2,000
Sales Office #2		47,000		4,000		1,000
Total		$314,000		$38,000		$10,000

The state unemployment tax rate is 5.5%. However, Sandhill receives a 3.5% merit adjustment, bringing its effective state unemployment rate to 2.0%. The FICA rate is 7.65% on an employee’s wages to $140,000 and 1.45% in excess of $140,000. Of the $314,000 wages potentially subject to FICA tax, the following amounts are in excess of $140,000.

Headquarters		$21,000
Sales Office #1		24,000
Sales Office #2		19,000

The federal unemployment tax rate is 0.8% after credits. Income and payroll tax withheld amount to $24,000 for headquarters, $8,000 for sales office #1, and $7,700 for sales office #2.

Prepare a schedule showing the employer’s total cost of wages for November by function. 

Prepare the journal entries to record the factory, sales, and administrative payrolls including the employer’s payroll taxes

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