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What is the difference between Salary and Hourly?

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E.Emily

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Answered Nov 10, 2020

When you work or have a career, you will typically hold salary hours, which is a pay at a fixed rate, no matter how much overtime you work. The good news is that you are allotted to a certain amount of free vacation and sick time with salaried hours. One of the most challenging working salaried positions is that of the teacher.

They will typically work more than any other profession, as they continue to go to school or college even when it is closed for vacation. They will continue to grade papers and plan their itineraries, even through summer. Most of the people who work salaried hours are those who have very adult or college degree earned jobs or careers.

On the other hand, people who work hourly tend to work part-time or minimum wage jobs that typically employ high school kids or college kids looking to make some extra money. When you work an hourly contract, you will receive compensation for the number of hours you clock, along with any overtime you have put in. This overtime pay is one advantage that the hourly system has over salary.

Also, salaried workers can be easily fired from their job; the people who work an hourly rate are not easy to let go. This difficulty is because it involves a complicated process that often entails putting something in writing.

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Corné , College student, MBA, Geneva

Answered Nov 03, 2020

Everybody is involved in different kinds of job where which they are paid at a different rate and different system or pattern. Two major popular ways by which you can be paid for your work are through the salary or the hourly system. The salary system is a payment method whereby you are remunerated at the end of the year, and mostly at the end of the month. With a salary system of payment, working with an increase or decrease time does not change the amount of your payment. Most people that are accepting this kind of payment are most likely full-time employers. On the other hand, hourly is a payment system whereby you are paid for your work done every hour. With this kind of payment method, your time of work would definitely affect your payment. When you work more you earn more; and when you work less, you earn less. People that are collecting this kind of payment are usually employed on a part-time or contractual basis.
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Robert Hazlewood

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Robert Hazlewood, Senior Executive, MBA, Louisville

Answered Oct 21, 2020

There are different ways that employees may get paid. When you say “salary,” this means that the employees are paid a consistent amount of money based on the schedule that was given to them.

This means that the person will not be paid based on the number of hours that the person has worked but depending on the type of tasks that the person has done or is required to have. When a person is paid “hourly,” this means that the amount will depend on the number of hours that the person spent on doing work.

For example, you may get paid $15 per hour. The more hours that you work, the more money that you will get to have by the time that you need to get paid.

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Amla Amelia

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Amla Amelia

Answered Mar 02, 2020

Salary is a system of payment to a particular employee, which is usually made per month and or year on a fixed rate. On the other hand, hourly is another system of payment whereby the employee is remunerated for every single hour of work. However, the people that are engaged in salary jobs are usually literate people who are engaged in white-collar jobs. These kinds of work include the managerial job, supervisor, academic staff, and several other office works.

When it comes to the hourly jobs, they are usually allocated to manual laborers, and of which many of them are not really literate. Those who receive contractual works or part-time jobs usually receive hourly wages, unlike the salary earners that tend to be regular employees and also go on a full-time base. For those receiving salaries, they usually have a fixed time to end their works, while those paid on an hourly basis are not really restricted by time. So far, the rate of pay remains constant and favorable to them.

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