Topcoding of Usual Hourly Earnings

This variable will be topcoded based on an individual's usual hours worked variable, if the individual's edited usual weekly earnings variable is > $1923. The topcode is computed such that the product of usual hours times usual hourly does not exceed an annualized wage of $100,000 ($1923.07 per week). Below is a list of the appropriate topcodes.

Hours	Topcode	Hours	Topcode

  		  50	$38.46
  1	 None	  51	$37.70
  2	 None	  52	$36.98
  3	 None	  53	$36.28
  4	 None	  54	$35.61
  5	 None	  55	$34.96
  6	 None	  56	$34.34
  7	 None	  57	$33.73
  8	 None	  58	$33.15
  9	 None	  59	$32.59
 10	 None	  60	$32.05
 11	 None	  61	$31.52
 12	 None	  62	$31.01
 13	 None	  63	$30.52
 14	 None	  64	$30.04
 15	 None	  65	$29.58
 16	 None	  66	$29.13
 17	 None	  67	$28.70
 18	 None	  68	$28.28
 19	 None	  69	$27.87
 20	$96.15	  70	$27.47
 21	$91.57	  71	$27.08
 22	$87.41	  72	$26.70
 23	$83.61	  73	$26.34
 24	$80.12	  74	$25.98
 25	$76.92	  75	$25.64
 26	$73.96	  76	$25.30
 27	$71.22	  77	$24.97
 28	$68.68	  78	$24.65
 29	$66.31	  79	$24.34
 30	$64.10	  80	$24.03
 31	$62.03	  81	$23.74
 32	$60.09	  82	$23.45
 33	$58.27	  83	$23.16
 34	$56.56	  84	$22.89
 35	$54.94	  85	$22.62
 36	$53.41	  86	$22.36
 37	$51.97	  87	$22.10
 38	$50.60	  88	$21.85
 39	$49.30	  89	$21.60
 40	$48.07	  90	$21.36
 41	$46.90	  91	$21.13
 42	$45.78	  92	$20.90
 43	$44.72	  93	$20.67
 44	$43.70	  94	$20.45
 45	$42.73	  95	$20.24
 46	$41.80	  96	$20.03
 47	$40.91	  97	$19.82
 48	$40.06	  98	$19.62
 49	$39.24	  99	$19.42

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