title, im paid by the hour so im wondering if its calculable the amount of time id need to be clocked in n not work to match the surplus value extracted from me
or am i stupid n misunderstanding surplus value
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"Surplus value" sounds like "profit" to me. Take your employer's annual profits, divide by the number of total employees to get profit per employee. Divide that by your hourly wage and you have your answer.
Surplus value = v Annual profits = p Employer's total employees = e Your hourly wage = w
v = p / e / w
So, if Amazon made $9.1 billion in profit in 2025 and had 1,578,000 employees, and you worked full time all year in the USA at an entry-level position at the average of $33K/year or $15.87/hour, that's:
v = 9,100,000,000 / 1,578,000 / 15.87 v = 5776.79 / 15.87 v = 363.37 hours per year
Or roughly 1.4 hours (an hour and 24 minutes) per day at 260 days/year or 5 days x 52 weeks per year.