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Day 28

Monday, 31 August 2026

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Work out take-home pay without repeating the gross pay three times

LET names a value once so a formula reads as a sentence instead of three separate references to the same cell.

Task:

You run payroll for a five-person team at a small design studio. Every paycheck deducts a flat 20% of gross pay for income tax and a further 5% of the same gross pay for the pension scheme. In column C, work out each employee's net pay — using LET to name the gross pay once rather than writing the same cell reference three times over.

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