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Hourly wage- vs. Salary

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  1. wildwest

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    I had that unfortunate experience.
    Regarding my experience mentioned above, hourly I had pretty regular overtime, so even with a "promotion" and "raise", the increased salary was less than hourly + overtime with zero reductions in my hours worked.

    You've working on prints burning the midnight oil at home after a full workday since I met you here, are you currently compensated for all those nights?
     
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    So far so good for me...benefits a little better, HSA (my choice), this company puts in 500 then matches the next 500. PTO, they let me come and go as needed witb no questions. Same vaca, 4% match on 401!

    No complaints so far. We ahall see what the end of the year bonus + raise works out to be.
     
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    My position is considered salary non exempt. So I get paid if I work 40 hours or not plus get overtime. It’s time and a half then over twelve hours it goes to double time. There are shift differentials and holiday pay. Good luck with the negotiations, there are a lot of scenarios to consider
     
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    My position is salaried and I get to work when I want too.
     
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    I knew a retired pole dancer once, she said she owned the club but liked the exercise on occasion. Ahhh... memories. ;)


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    Did the numbers, going with another number(higher) to the boss before I agree.
    Had a good talk with our shop foreman today about this kind of stuff, he gave me some insight as to what's going on around the shop/employees.
    I asked him straight up- what is your compensation? We discussed a few other things then I shared my rational on my salary number, without giving him the number I'm after. He worked it and came up with a higher number than I was after. :rofl: :lol: So shared my number and he was in total agreement with me. It was a good conversation.
    Now, of course, I'm working late on things that if we get them, we're good for almost a year. But the week is young, I have time. Keep you posted. JB
    O/T- Got my stove running again on Sat., sooooo good to be burning again. :thumbs:
     
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    I traded an hourly position for salaried at another company, similar work. The salary itself was actually quite a bit less than what I was making hourly but I was consistently turning in 70+ hr weeks and working through weekends.

    New job included some nice benefits like relocating us to a great area with a reasonable cost of living. As I approach my 3rd year on the job, I’m roughly back to where I was on the $$ scale.

    Even though I’m still working 12-16hr days typically, I really try to hold that to M-F and reserve the weekends. Success so far has meant that my efforts are rewarded at review time. Hopefully that never changes. The best part of being on salary is that increases are permanent and I still get to take time off without penalty to my paycheck. When you’re killing the OT on hourly, those vacation week paychecks tended to sting a little, even if they are paid.
     
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    MasterMech - so many things for me to agree with, but I'll hold my cards until my deal is done. Appreciate your input. May try to work in the 1.5% annual increase, great idea. :yes:
     
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