
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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In a company, several employees have a total monthly salary of 10000 dollars. A kind manager suggests doubling the salary of everyone earning up to 500 dollars, and increasing everyone else's salary by 500 dollars. This would result in a total salary of 17000 dollars. An unkind manager proposes reducing the salary of everyone earning more than 500 dollars to 500, while keeping the salary of others the same. What will the total salary be in this case?

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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