After base pay and equipment come out of the pool, the remainder is allocated pro rata on hoursWorked / totalHours. Rounding remainders are handed to whoever worked the most hours so the parts always sum exactly to the surplus.
Also called: how the bonus is divided · fair share of savings · who gets what from the surplus
- 1Each member's hoursShare is computed to four decimal places.
- 2surplusShare = surplus x hoursShare, rounded to cents.
- 3Drift between the distributed total and the surplus is added to the top-hours member.
- 4The drift correction is guarded on totalHours > 0 so it cannot hand the whole surplus to whoever happens to be first in the list.
Splitting a surplus evenly rewards the man who missed two days exactly as much as the man who was there for all of them, and a crew works that out within one payout. The surplus is divided strictly by hours worked, irrespective of what each man's day rate is. Rounding never invents or loses money: leftover cents go to whoever worked the most hours so the shares always sum to the surplus exactly, and with no hours logged there is nothing to split rather than a windfall for whoever happens to be listed first.
- Bonus splits that reward rank rather than presence.
- Per-person amounts that do not sum to the total paid.
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