I heard the HR manager say that the company uses the graded schedule. I’m not sure what that means. AMY: I remember this from personal finance class. Graded schedule assumes that vesting is
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Grant's employer offers a pension plan that calculates the annual pension as the product of the final average salary, the number of years of service, and a 2$\%$ multiplier. His employer uses a graded 5 year vesting formula as shown. Grant's starting salary with his company 4 years ago was $\$ 80,000$ . Each year, he received a 2.5$\%$ raise. After 4 years, Grant leaves his job. How much pension will he receive? $$\begin{array}{|c|c|}\hline \text { Tears } & {\text { vesting }} \\ {\text { Employed }} & {\text { Percentage }} \\ \hline 0 & {0 \%} \\ {1} & {10 \%} \\ {2} & {25 \%} \\ {3} & {45 \%} \\ {4} & {70 \%} \\ {5} & {100 \%}\\ \hline\end{array}$$
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Dean has earned $75,000 annually for the past seven years working as an architect for WCC Incorporated Under WCC's defined benefit plan (which uses a seven-year graded vesting schedule) employees earn a benefit equal to 4.5 percent of the average of their three highest annual salaries for every full year of service with WCC. Dean has worked for seven full years for WCC and his vesting percentage is 99 percent. What is Dean's vested benefit (or annual retirement benefit he has earned so far)
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