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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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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 124 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Lol who would hear "I'm making 50k" and think it's anything other than per year unless they just stepped out of a private jet...

I feel like this might be confusing only if you are under the age of 14 and have no idea how money or the world works...

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

You don't make 50k per week???

Lol. Agreed. It's not confusing.

[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People whose currency IS dealt in that scale.

For example, if you want to restrict it to English speakers, then anyone from Hong Kong would be flaunting a quite decent, but not millionaire, salary.