Whats better getting paid by he hour or salray!!!?

Question

Whats better getting paid by he hour or salray!!!?

Answer 1

I am salary and have worked up to 60 hours a week with no overtime....  if  OT is important to you, hourly is the best.

Answer 2

I would actually input a third option. Commission. Both salary and hourly have income ceilings. It's built in with salary, and often you can't work overtime when you're hourly anyway. But even if you can, you can only work so many hours. When you work for commission, your income can be almost [technically] unlimited and is solely based on your personal productivity.

For instance, if you make $10 an hour, to make $100 [gross] you have to work 10 hours. Period. If you make 5% commission, you have to sell $2000 worth of products. You should be able to do that almost anywhere within an 8 hour shift.  However, depending on where and what you're selling you could do that in one sale. And this is just an example, commission percentages can range dramatically from company to company and product to product.

However, to be fair, it is certainly possible to work for commission and not break minimum wage. Personally, I think if an employer has that occur often they should be ashamed. Either their sales training sucks, or their compensation system should not be commission based as their products can't hold decent profit.

Answer 3

most places salray folks get certain benetits that hourly folks do not -- they may not get paid overtime but they do get comp time and do not  have punch a time card!!!

Answer 4

in my opinion hourly is much better but that is from my experience. when i was salaried I was paid every other week, the same amount. there were times of the year when business slowed but we still had to keep busy...there were other times however where he piled work on us and even made us work in the evenings outside of normal business hours  or even  on a saturday. the problem is when you break down the salary into the actual hours you have to put in, you usually realize you are being grossly underpaid. after putting in so much time, not being compensated for my time.. I was like later for this. so your required hours could go over 40 and there is no overtime. to me this sucks.

I work an hourly job now, for each of my time i am paid a certain amount. If I work on a holiday i get double time, if i work overtime it is time and a half, if i pick upovertime and it happens to be a holiday then i get triple time. This way my ability to earn a certain amount is based on if i choose to do the overtime or not but no one is forcing me.

being salaried you are forced to do whatever the boss says becuase accordingly that is all included in the overall salary amount.

plus at my old job we could only take off of work 7 days for vacation and sick days. this was for the entire year.

with my job now we have 32 days plus when we pick up extra hours of work, that adds to the accrual of vacation days.

Answer 5

It all depends on the salary and the hours you put in.  If you work over 40 hours each and every week, then hourly may be your best bet because any overtime hours will be paid time and a half, or maybe even double in some cases (if you work Sundays).

Answer 6

What's better an apple or an orange?

It depends.  Both have advantages and disadvantages.