What is a safe assumption to make regarding companies?
a. companies use all angles to aggressively compete for your money.
b. companies know that competition is fierce for consumer dollars.
c. companies spend millions of dollars and do extensive research on advertising.
d. all of the above?

Assuming that the numbers you provided here are the number of hours worked per week, it would be better to take the salary rate.

Here's why:

The total number of hours worked is 44 (adding up all the hours from your chart).

The first 40 hours are paid at $25; totalling $1,000. The next 4 hours are paid at $37.50; totalling $150 for a grand total of $1,150 per week.

Far salaried workers, you need to find the weekly rate they are paid. You would take their annual salary ($67,000) and divide that by the number of weeks in a year (52) and you get $1,288.46.

Since the weekly rate is greater for salary, you would choose that option.