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John gets payed 11 dollars an hour . In 4 hours he planted 17 trees, how much would he get payed for planting each tree ?
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= 2.59 dollars for planting each tree.
Regarding using the word "payed" the Internet says:
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/paid-payed/
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/paid-payed/
The correct past tense of the verb pay is paid, as long as the word is used in the financial or transactional sense.
If the verb pay is used in a nautical sense, the correct form is payed.
What can you do with the verb pay? You can pay for college, vacations, or utilities.
You can also pay attention, and you can pay respect. You can pay someone a visit.
And you can pay out a rope or pay off a ship. There are plenty of things you can do with the verb “pay,”
and that’s without going into all the phrases and phrasal verbs it’s a part of.
Most of the time, using the verb pay is not troublesome. It is an irregular verb, but not one that’s hard to memorize,
so it’s likely you’ll know that its present participle is always paying and that its past participle is paid . . . usually.