Current Events > salary vs hourly

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I can work extra hours and not get paid for it? Gee, I wonder which one is better
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i get flex time at my job, but Id rather get OT yeah
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Yeah, but you can also be given worse/less hours than you want and not get paid as much when you actually wanted 40.
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Depends. People love to talk about how with the hours they make "as much" and yet one of those makes 30% more.

It's all in the company, how they treat their salaried, and how much more you'd make.
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Yeah I have flex time. If I stay in the office a half hour extra here or there, I convert that into time I can use for bonus half days and days off (or simply just leave early the next day). I don't work for free.

Salary sounds good and all, but what if you get fired or have to work over?

Hourly for me and use PTO while working at my other job if I want.
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I'm salary and also get OT.
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most high-paid jobs are salaried

so long as your net total pay/hr as a salaried employee is above what you could find hourly, well worth it
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Salary non-exempt ftw
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On average salary tends to be paid higher, however it greatly depends on the work you do and the company to see if its worth it.
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I am salaried.
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Salary is great. Some weeks Im busy and put in extra hours. Some weeks its really slow and I just leave early. Some days I feel like a long lunch. I have lots of doctor appointments and I can go to them whenever without notifying anyone.

I love the flexibility.

Darksaber310 posted...

Depends. People love to talk about how with the hours they make "as much" and yet one of those makes 30% more.

It's all in the company, how they treat their salaried, and how much more you'd make.

I agree

I've had one salary job (was fired in a week)

overtime was recommended if you fell behind, and you weren't paid or reimbursed for it
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Cleo_II posted...

Some weeks its really slow and I just leave early

they definitely do not let me work <40 hr weeks since we have to have a direct budget to charge to
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I think some salaried people exaggerate the extent to which they are putting in time, because the types of jobs that are commonly associated with hourly wages are also the jobs where you're hounded to always be doing work no matter how productive it is, whereas many jobs associated with salaried jobs involve people who spent lots of "work hours" on CE, which can lead to situations where you actually only truly worked 20 hours this week and next week when you cram in 55 hours to finish a project, it feels like you are working much more than if you were hourly.

But there are also salaried jobs that just like the ability to not pay overtime and cushy hourly jobs.
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Cleo_II posted...

Salary is great. Some weeks Im busy and put in extra hours. Some weeks its really slow and I just leave early. Some days I feel like a long lunch. I have lots of doctor appointments and I can go to them whenever without notifying anyone.

I love the flexibility.

This. I enjoy the freedom to come into and leave work whenever I please without worrying what my hours are.
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I am a salaried employee who spends half my workday on Current Events.
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I work salary and get to my flex any time I work over 40, which is a rarity.

I also don't have to clock in or out.

Gee, I wonder which one is better?
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Darkman124 posted...

Cleo_II posted...

Some weeks its really slow and I just leave early

they definitely do not let me work <40 hr weeks since we have to have a direct budget to charge to

Are you salary non-exempt? Thats how I used to be paid when I was an engineer. It was annoying because you still had to log all your hours and getting time off for my appointments was always stressful.

Now Im salary exempt. Its great imo. My boss has no idea what time I come in or when I go, all he cares about is results.

Cleo_II posted...

Salary is great. Some weeks Im busy and put in extra hours. Some weeks its really slow and I just leave early. Some days I feel like a long lunch. I have lots of doctor appointments and I can go to them whenever without notifying anyone.

I love the flexibility.

Same here. With salary, you're treated more like a professional hired for your services. There's more flexibility to chose the manner of how your work gets done. Instead of being a warm body paid to do a job, and watching the clock.
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EndOfDiscOne posted...

Cleo_II posted...

Salary is great. Some weeks Im busy and put in extra hours. Some weeks its really slow and I just leave early. Some days I feel like a long lunch. I have lots of doctor appointments and I can go to them whenever without notifying anyone.

I love the flexibility.

Same here. With salary, you're treated more like a professional hired for your services. There's more flexibility to chose the manner of how your work gets done. Instead of being a warm body paid to do a job, and watching the clock.

Yeah cause lawyers that bill hourly totally aren't professionals hired for their services. There are tons of professionals that bill by the hour. I hired a sound technician at one of my jobs and his rate was $55/hr. I work alongside welders and electricians who bill $50/hr.
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Cleo_II posted...

Darkman124 posted...

Cleo_II posted...

Some weeks its really slow and I just leave early

they definitely do not let me work <40 hr weeks since we have to have a direct budget to charge to

Are you salary non-exempt? Thats how I used to be paid when I was an engineer. It was annoying because you still had to log all your hours and getting time off for my appointments was always stressful.

Now Im salary exempt. Its great imo. My boss has no idea what time I come in or when I go, all he cares about is results.

no, i'm exempt

i don't have to work specific hours but they do have to total to a min of 40

nobody cares if it's 41 or 141 though

and i have to total up hrs because we charge to a specific budget for what i work on
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salary is so much better.
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Oh I hated time sheets. My old company billed hourly on clients and you had to put your time on different projects. If you had nothing to do you got yelled at for billing non chargable hours. If you overbilled a client you for yelled at for taking too much time.

My current job has no time sheets. It is just show up for the workday and as long as you get your stuff done the boss is happy.
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r4X0r posted...

EndOfDiscOne posted...

Cleo_II posted...

Salary is great. Some weeks Im busy and put in extra hours. Some weeks its really slow and I just leave early. Some days I feel like a long lunch. I have lots of doctor appointments and I can go to them whenever without notifying anyone.

I love the flexibility.

Same here. With salary, you're treated more like a professional hired for your services. There's more flexibility to chose the manner of how your work gets done. Instead of being a warm body paid to do a job, and watching the clock.

Yeah cause lawyers that bill hourly totally aren't professionals hired for their services. There are tons of professionals that bill by the hour. I hired a sound technician at one of my jobs and his rate was $55/hr. I work alongside welders and electricians who bill $50/hr.

My firm bills hourly too. We're just not employed hourly. Same with lawyers. We also do write-downs all the time, so it's not a strict hourly bill.
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DragonGirlYuki posted...

Oh I hated time sheets. My old company billed hourly on clients and you had to put your time on different projects. If you had nothing to do you got yelled at for billing non chargable hours. If you overbilled a client you for yelled at for taking too much time.

My current job has no time sheets. It is just show up for the workday and as long as you get your stuff done the boss is happy.

I don't know if this is something you can strictly consider a hourly/salary thing, though. You can be in a salary position but if your role is justified on billable hours then you're probably doing timesheets.
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I was offered salary at my job because we have a busy season and light season. I sat down and did the math. I make more if I work hourly and get overtime. I just take a bunch of vacation days during the light season to pad my hours.

I would have to work a few 60 hour weeks either way. I might as well make more money.
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Yeah my old role was justified on timesheets and we were salaried. We had a fixed number of hours to do each week and overtime that got compensated with time off during busy season.
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What I love about salary is not having someone breath down my neck for not spending arbitrary time in a place doing nothing. Someone isn't going to dock my paycheck just because I took off half an hour early because my meeting got cancelled. Likewise someone isn't going to give me a hard time for being 30 minutes late in the morning when they know I put in the work.

This largely depends on management though.
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My old place sucks. People were constantly breathing down your neck on your time. If you were late. Got to the point people were fudging their timesheets to avoid getting yelled at.
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