Are you salary OR hourly? Do you like it or wish you had it the other way?

[HAL9000]

And BAN. If you ban me for this, ban this guy too. He's perfectly correct, and breaking the rules.

I was trying to ascertain the meaning of the OP. I assumed it was a confused OP. Evidently not. I'm moving on, so should you.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

On topic:

Both suck! How come there is no third option?

 

[SphinxnihpS]

I was trying to ascertain the meaning of the OP. I assumed it was a confused OP. Evidently not. I'm moving on, so should you.

LOL idiot! I wasn't referring to getting you banned.

...add paranoid to the list.

 

[HAL9000]

On topic:

Both suck! How come there is no third option?

Commission?

 

[HAL9000]

LOL idiot! I wasn't referring to getting you banned.

...add paranoid to the list.

Consider my tail between my legs. Nothing to see here.

 

[hanoverphist]

im salary, and i have a few issues with how they handle it. but overall, i prefer salary. especially when i get double time for emergency service after hours and on weekends. i had a day trip one time that ended up netting me more than i made the week before for 2 hours of actual work.

on the other hand, when i have those long jobs that keep me out for 12 to 17 hours a day i dont like salary that much.

 

[zCypher]

Wow it's really not that complicated. Hourly means you are paid by the hour. Salary means you are paid a fixed yearly salary.

If you are paid hourly, it means you get paid less when you work less hours and paid more when you work more hours. If you are salary, it means you get paid the same amount regardless of the hours worked.

Maybe where you're from, hourly pay and being paid a salary are completely synonymous.

And there are definitely pros and cons for both situations. I'm paid hourly, and it suits the position well.

 

[Deeko]

I'm grown up. Also I'm not trolling.

Yes, you are trolling.

I was trying to ascertain the meaning of the OP. I assumed it was a confused OP. Evidently not. I'm moving on, so should you.

No, you weren't confused. In fact, by stating that now, not only are you trolling, you are lying. Everyone here knows that while you might have disagreed with the wording in the OP, you knew exactly what it meant, you just wanted to be a dick about it, which is par for the course for you.

 

[HAL9000]

Yes, you are trolling.



No, you weren't confused. In fact, by stating that now, not only are you trolling, you are lying. Everyone here knows that while you might have disagreed with the wording in the OP, you knew exactly what it meant, you just wanted to be a dick about it, which is par for the course for you.

I'm not lying I genuinely genuinely thought the OP had made a mistake, I have never heard this phrasing before.

 

[rivan]

im salary, and i have a few issues with how they handle it. but overall, i prefer salary. especially when i get double time for emergency service after hours and on weekends. i had a day trip one time that ended up netting me more than i made the week before for 2 hours of actual work.

on the other hand, when i have those long jobs that keep me out for 12 to 17 hours a day i dont like salary that much.

So you're not strictly salary, but somewhere in-between? How are you awarded that extra?

 

[Deeko]

I'm not lying I genuinely genuinely thought the OP had made a mistake, I have never heard this phrasing before.

Wow...we get it, you're English, you speak the language differently, and since England came first you assume that's the correct way.

No, really, we get it. We don't need you to come into every damn thread and make some idiotic reference to England vs America, no matter how veiled or varied.

And for the record - while you may have never heard that phrasing before and clearly didn't agree with it, you still knew exactly what he meant. In other words, you're trolling.

Since I'm merely pointing out what everyone else here already knows, I'm going to stop feeding you, troll. Byeo.

 

[HAL9000]

Wow...we get it, you're English, you speak the language differently, and since England came first you assume that's the correct way.

No, really, we get it. We don't need you to come into every damn thread and make some idiotic reference to England vs America, no matter how veiled or varied.

And for the record - while you may have never heard that phrasing before and clearly didn't agree with it, you still knew exactly what he meant. In other words, you're trolling.

Since I'm merely pointing out what everyone else here already knows, I'm going to stop feeding you, troll. Byeo.

Jesus man give up. I wasn't making a point I was trying to understand if this was an american thing or if the guy had make a mistake. move on.

 

[Duder1no]

frankly I am surprised at the winning salary poll, I expected this to be an hourly landslide poll win

 

[CountZero]

I am salaried, flex time (come and go whenever, work from home whenever) and 'unlimited' sick days (ie if it is reasonable no one cares). Rarely work more than 50 hours a week, managers fully support comping OT if it is helping meet the all important deadlines.

I wouldn't want it any other way. I have a list of responsibilities and deliverables and that is all that is tracked. It feels like being treated like a competent adult instead of tracked like property.

If it was a job that could involve being 'on call' in any capacity (officially or just by the nature of the work) I would probably prefer hourly.

 

[TuxDave]

Jesus man give up. I wasn't making a point I was trying to understand if this was an american thing or if the guy had make a mistake. move on.

Or it's just an everyone except you thing. My English friends knew what this topic was about.

 

[HAL9000]

Or it's just an everyone except you thing. My English friends knew what this topic was about.

So did I, I didn't say I didn't understand it, I was asking about the phrasing.

 

[Jeff7]

Hourly, and I don't know why anyone would want to be salaried, unless their job is the sort where they get paid 40hrs-worth to do 30hrs of work.

I guess it depends on the workplace though. My perception of salaried is that you have to work the same schedule as everyone else, but if you stay past 40hrs, your effective hourly wage decreases - basically it's free work for the employer. I work 40 hours, and get paid for it. I work more than that, 150% pay per hour.
My work experience in this manner is (perhaps obviously) rather limited.

 

[BoomerD]

Not currently working...semi-retired, but I started working in 1968. In that time, I've had two salaried jobs...The USMC and as a business agent for my union.
BOTH of those jobs required MUCH more than 40 hours per week...yet I got paid the same as the slugs who worked 40 hours or less.

I FAR prefer working for an hourly wage.

 

[AFurryReptile]

I'm salary and I like it. But my company literally owns my ass.

 

[Alienwho]

The awesomeness of salary varies greatly. I loved salary at my old job. Come and go as I please, work from home often, basically do whatever you want as long as you get the job done. I really only worked ~32 hours a week. It was great.

My new position is salary as well but I still have to clock in and clock out which is retarded. They're huge sticklers about everything and I now work probably 46 hours a week. I traded flexibility and a relaxed environment for about double the salary. It's still worth it but I will be very happy when I find a job like my old job that pays what I make now.

 

[nanette1985]

You forgot contract as an option

Whatever it's called. I wrote a sales letter this morning for a web site and got paid $600. I would have gotten the same amount no matter how long it took - it happened to go easily and I finished in a couple hours. That was my contract with my client.

EDIT - and I like it this way.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Currently on contract w/hourly pay + overtime. Milking the system dry for 60 hours / week and loving it.
Manufactured urgency ==> cha-ching for me

 

[silverpig]

I used to be hourly and now I'll be salary. I like the idea of being paid to do a job rather than being paid for my time.

The thing I hated about being hourly was having to "round out the day" even though I may have worked hard and finished my work for the day early.

 

[Sumguy]

Based from what I've seen so far, I'd want hourly (or salary+overtime, didn't know about that). I'm not sure if that is common for engineering jobs.

Maybe if the atmosphere were laid back, and nobody cared about time as long as you got things done, and they respect your time, I'd be OK with salary. Seems to me though that you get salary with no overtime, you enter the realm of "we need you to come in this weekend..." Fuck everything about that.

 

[Kadarin]

My point is that, when you get paid hourly you are being paid a salary.

Technically, you would be being paid a wage, not a salary at this point.