What's with telling YEARLY salaries? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago by Blizzard@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

But most pays are fortnightly

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Not here (the Netherlands), everything is monthly, both pay and bills.

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Same in Hungary. Not a single person I know gets their salary weekly or biweekly. It's absolutely not a thing.

Also, your bills are monthly. You mortgage is monthly. Your credit card bill is monthly. Preschool is paid monthly. Everything is monthly.

this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023

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