Comment Re:Salary, all the way.... (Score 1) 301
The issue to me is not salery vs. hourly wage, but total compensation for contribution to the organization and risk taken.. For many of us in the wired world compensation can be a little strange. You can work away at a stable $50,000 job and buy a house have benefits etc, but you aren't going be rich that way! (If that is a goal). Very little risk, and reasonable compensation as long as you are not working 95h a week.
Or you can take a chance on a startup and you might be the one-in-a-thousand that makes some money. So you are employee number 5 making $40,000 for a while, the company goes public and you are in golden handcuffs for the next 3 years waiting for your stocks to vest. High risk, you might not have a job or stock in the next three years..
But to be more specific about hourly vs. salery. There are lots of full time jobs that pay hourly, and pay well. For example my Brother has worked as a pipe fitter for the last 20 years at a large steel company. He makes $55-74k a year gets paid time and half for regular overtime plus double to double-time and a half for weekend and holidays. (This is not a union shop). He owns a big house in the country and has 13 weeks a year vacation (Nice eh?)
To do that kind of hourly work, you need to be not management (management wants to 'own' you), and work in an established business where your skill-sets will be shared with people around you. They can do your job when you are not there.
I may be building a NOC in the next year, and I am very interested in paying the employees hourly, so when they do extra shifts, it is easy to keep track and costs can be understood.
Hourly pay does not mean part-time. Salery doesn't mean you arn't going to be screwed on having a life ..
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Or you can take a chance on a startup and you might be the one-in-a-thousand that makes some money. So you are employee number 5 making $40,000 for a while, the company goes public and you are in golden handcuffs for the next 3 years waiting for your stocks to vest. High risk, you might not have a job or stock in the next three years..
But to be more specific about hourly vs. salery. There are lots of full time jobs that pay hourly, and pay well. For example my Brother has worked as a pipe fitter for the last 20 years at a large steel company. He makes $55-74k a year gets paid time and half for regular overtime plus double to double-time and a half for weekend and holidays. (This is not a union shop). He owns a big house in the country and has 13 weeks a year vacation (Nice eh?)
To do that kind of hourly work, you need to be not management (management wants to 'own' you), and work in an established business where your skill-sets will be shared with people around you. They can do your job when you are not there.
I may be building a NOC in the next year, and I am very interested in paying the employees hourly, so when they do extra shifts, it is easy to keep track and costs can be understood.
Hourly pay does not mean part-time. Salery doesn't mean you arn't going to be screwed on having a life
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