Kristin Helmud is the general manager of Highland Inn, a local mid-priced hotel with 100...

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Kristin Helmud is the general manager of Highland Inn, a local mid-priced hotel with 100 rooms. Her job objectives include providing resourceful and friendly service to the hotels guests, maintaining an 75% occupancy rate, improving the average rate received per room to $98 from the current $95, achieving a savings of 5% on all hotel costs, and reducing energy use by 10% by carefully managing the use of heating and air conditioning in unused rooms and by carefully managing the onsite laundry facility, among other means. The hotels owner, a partnership of seven people who own several hotels in the region, wants to structure Kristins future compensation to objectively reward her for achieving these goals. In the past, she has been paid an annual salary of $82,000 with no incentive pay. The incentive plan the partners developed has each of the goals weighted as follows:

Measure

Percent of Total Responsibility

Occupancy rate (also reflects guest service quality)

20

%

Operating within 95% of expense budget

30

Average room rate

30

Energy use

20

100

%

If Kristin achieves all of these goals, the partners determined that her performance should merit a bonus of $40,000. The partners also agree that her salary will need to be reduced to $70,000 because of the addition of the bonus.

The goal measures used to compensate Kristin are as follows:

Occupancy goal:

27,375 room-nights = 75% occupancy rate 100 rooms 365 days

Compensation:

20% weight $40,000 target bonus = $8,000

$8,000/27,375 = $0.2922 per room-night

Expense goal:

5% savings

Compensation:

30% weight $40,000 target bonus = $12,000

$12,000/5 = $2,400 for each percentage point saved

Room rate goal:

$3 rate increase

Compensation:

30% weight $40,000 target bonus = $12,000

$12,000/300 = $40.00 for each cent increase

Energy use goal:

10% savings

Compensation:

20% weight $40,000 target bonus = $8,000

$8,000/10 = $800 for each percentage point saved

Kristins new compensation plan will thus pay her a $70,000 salary plus 29.22 cents per room-night sold plus $2,400 for each percentage point saved in the expense budget plus $40 for each cent increase in the average room rate plus $800 for each percentage point saved in energy use. The minimum potential compensation would be $70,000 and the maximum potential compensation for Kristin would be $70,000 + $40,000 = $110,000

Required: 1. Based on this plan, what will Kristins total compensation be if her performance results are (Round your answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

a. 30,000 room-nights, 5% saved, $3.00 rate increase, and 7% reduction in energy use?

b. 25,000 room-nights, 3% saved, $1.15 rate increase, and 4% reduction in energy use?

c. 28,000 room-nights, 0% saved, $1.00 rate increase, and 1% reduction in energy use?

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a. Total compensation b. Total compensation C. Total compensation

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