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submitted 10 months ago by Blizzard@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I think this is mostly a US thing. Why use yearly salary? You're not paid once a year, are you? Most likely once a month. Referencing monthly salary makes much more sense.

"I'm making 50k". Great, now I have to guess - dollars? Monthly? Yearly? If yearly then what's the monthly paycheck? Net? Gross?

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[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 49 points 10 months ago

Because that's the standard and that is the wage I negotiated and my bi-weekly checks are that number/26. I didn't negotiate a per-payperiod rate.

It's what my taxation is based on.

It's what all my credit applications ask for.

Also, what you make and what you take home are really quite variable based on circumstance between 2 people making the same base wage. Retirement contributions, health care premiums, taxes, and other deductions vary from person to person.

For salaried employees it's the standard metric by which wages are measured. You don't need to guess anything. That's the standard.

For hourly employees, that would be your hourly rate. Since hours can be variable and overtime is a thing your yearly rate would be variable too.

Seriously there's nothing to guess.

[-] Sternout@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Because that's the standard

Where?

It's not standard for me. We only talk about monthly numbers with my colleagues and friends.

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 1 points 9 months ago

For the US, but going by this thread it's not limited to here.

Also, for what it's worth, I would think if op was in a place that used monthly as the standard they wouldn't have posted this complaint. If that's not the case I'm confused by the point of this post?

[-] Rouxibeau@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Bi-weekly is ambiguous, use fortnightly.

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 3 points 9 months ago

Very few people are paid twice a week.

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