I was getting a salary review from Johnny Carson. He thought I was doing fine, but he also suspected me of stealing the good knives out of his kitchen and would not drop it. This was not helped by the fact I was toying with a knife the entire time.
In a few months I’ll be up for a promotion in which I will likely move from hourly to salaried. Do you have any info on the pros and cons of either?
Pros of salaried:
You don't have to track your hours!
You can predict your earnings for the entire year.
If you complete your work, you don't have to just keep at it to fill an hourly quota.
Salaried employees usually get other benefits that can include PTO, health insurance, a retirement fund, etc.
With the exception of some specialized fields, salaried workers generally make more money than hourly workers.
Cons of salaried:
Overtime pay is... not a thing. So if you need to work longer to get your work done, you don't necessarily get compensated more.
Pros of hourly:
Overtime pay! The more you work, the more you get paid.
Cons of hourly:
It's hard to predict what your income will be.
There's no law that says hourly workers are entitled to a consistent schedule. So good luck trying to squeeze together multiple part-time hourly jobs if you have no idea when you'll be needed at work.
Hourly workers typically do not receive additional benefits besides pay.
You might be required to file taxes quarterly instead of annually.
With the exception of some specialized fields, hourly workers generally make less money than salaried workers.
I've done both and personally, I have preferred being a salaried worker. Here's more on the benefits that typically come with a salary:
Workplace Benefits and Other Cool Side Effects of Employment
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i learned that in many countries there's a mandatory requirement for companies to pay salaried employees a "thirteenth month" and even a "fourteenth month" - yearly bonus pays each equivalent to one month's normal salary (x)
Members of congress and the president should earn minimum wage. Federal minimum wage, $7.25 per hour. 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, that comes out to $15,080 before taxes. If we're SUPER generous and say that they're on the clock 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (ignoring recesses and holidays) that's $63,510 annually, which works out to over $30 per hour for a regular employee, and about a third of what the rank and file members currently make (a quarter of what the Speaker and VP make)
Oh, but "working" 168 hours a week means they earn 128 hours of overtime, which is paid time and a half, so that boosts them up to $87,464 per year, which is about half what they currently earn and over $20,000 more than the median household income,two fulltime non-minimum wage earners filing jointly.
$87.5k represents the absolute maximum, but how much work do they actually do?
Let's call it 150 days. If we're generous again and say they work 24 hours each day, that's 3,600 hours for a total of $26,100 per year (excluding ovettime). Regular full time is 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, that's 2,080 hours, so they'd still get 1,520 hours of overtime for a total of $31,610 assuming they are on the floor at all times and never eat or sleep when in session. There is no good reason they should be earning hundreds of thousands of dollars per year when their constiuents struggle to make ends meet. $31.6k is more than I made at my last job where I earned $15 per hour.
There's the Man Who's Holding You Down
Yes, sir! There's the man. You see him every time you look in the mirror. His name isn't Brown or Smith or Jones but Y-O-U. He's your real boss. He's the man who decides whether your salary will be $35 a week or $100 or $150.
Ok the button guy makes as much as 4 cops - cool. So what, you all ask me, a beatupoldpickuptruck.
Here's some more jokes;
Director @ Trust Fund $85k/yr + benefits
Chief of Police @ (Precinct) $65k/yr + benefits
National Parks Service Ranger: $32k/yr no benefits
Backend (math, computation, everything not user facing in software) programmer / dev;
*drumroll*
$184,650/year + benefits + STOCK.
SO 👉👉 if you wanna *fight the bourgeois* or *overthrow the patriarchy* or get rich so you can buy your dream cottagecore tiny home, or buy a private island to build an entirely Wicca society, whatever you want
you should probably learn to code.
Specially since them daggum learning machines are getting so good at art and writing that sometimes you can't even tell the difference?
Only way to sieze control of the levers of power are to become the controllers of the sources of that power.
Wrench away the machines from the evil doers and capitalists
Let free your creativity on the canvas of virtual machines
Set yourself free, wielding knowledge as your sword.
Then no one can disarm you.
But that's just what this beatupoldpickuptruck thinks of things, don't pay me no mind, children.
If Your Employer Refuses To Negotiate Salary, Try These 11 Creative Counteroffers
If a potential employer refuses to negotiate salary, it doesn’t mean that their offer is bad. Internal policies far more benign than the one I just described dictate salary offers. Some employers have a strict system for salaries based on tenure, experience, performance, or job title. Others must adhere to government guidelines or union rules regarding fair salaries.
It also doesn’t mean that the conversation is over. You can ask for so much more than money! When an employer refuses to negotiate salary, they’re giving you leverage to ask for other things. Today, I’ll give you a few ideas for creative counteroffers that will make your life better and sweeten any job transition. Even better, I’ll suggest some simple scripts you can follow to maximize your chances that they’ll say “yes.”
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