Does being salaried make a difference?
Do you think being paid salaried means you have a different work ethic than those that are paid hourly?
My brother works as a manager and is often frustrated with his employees. A few days ago he expressed the following. "Management feels like babysitting. I wish my employees were paid salaried versus hourly." That statement surprised me and got my wheels spinning. My brother wishes he could manage people that were salaried because then there would be incentives to do their job.
I thought that was interesting and false.
When I worked as a manager, my people worked harder and they were paid hourly. It was the ones without the will or desire to be promoted that didn't work hard. The hourly employees were sometimes very lazy, but were willing to work for more hours which led to more pay. Whereas salaried individuals oftentimes don't want more work, more hours, and at times worked less. I find some of them to be unresponsive due to their pay being the same regardless of the time spent on it. Which I experienced with my managers. Ideally, this person would invest their time wisely, but could potentially take advantage of the system in the same way an hourly employee does.
What do you think?
Does being paid hourly versus being paid a salary make a difference to your effort level? Would you work harder if you were salaried or hourly? Let’s assume the only variable in anyone's behavior is that determining factor. What say you?
The issue with salaried workers is they are often left holding the bag. The team did not finish something oh let's send the hourly paid workers home they can’t have more than 40 hours a week. Oh, we need to save on payroll expensive let’s cut hours or remove some hourly workers the salaried ones can pick up the slack.
The biggest issue with being a salaried worker is if you can do the work in half the time that does not mean you get to go home early. No, you get to do double the work then and they will cut or remove hourly workers. Funny enough If I’m not mistaken you still have the salaried overtime protection if they make less then 47k a year they have to be paid overtime. Which kind of makes it pointless to be a salaried employee unless you are earning more than that.
In an ideal world, a salaried employee would get to work till he finishes his job and gets to go home. So on lesser days where there not much work 20 hour work week be fine. On very busy weeks where 60 hours require that is fine. They should regardless be making the same
Sadly, employers take advantage heavily of salaried employees and other wage loopholes. It’s how lawyers can make less than minimum wage and why people in warehouse logistics management can work 100 hours and still not be finished for the week when it comes to things like inventorying checking for spoilage, loss, and theft.
There never is a happy solution. Employers will take advantage of employees and vice versa. If you are someone who needs 40 hours a week just to live paycheck to paycheck and you could do your work in half the time this leaves many people in a bind. They can either try and get more work, work slower, or loss things like there health benefits and have to go get a second or third job to make it.
I’ve always been more happy with how some production factories do it. Hourly rate + rate piece. There enough work that you should always get the 40 you need. On top of that if you are great at your job and can do double the work in the same amount of time as other you get to make more. They are incentives with higher tiers the higher they produce on the rate piece scale.
Me Personally
For me personally, I’m more task ornamented. I work till things are completed then I move onto the next thing. If it's 1 hour or 100 hours does not matter. I want my best work being shown because I want the customer to be happy I could care less about the employer within reason (some people out there will never be happy while they are still on this planet!) Granted I am very different than most. Which is also why I despise most employers. They love to take advantage of people like me along with the customers! Hence me enjoying more entrepreneurship type of things and just never getting enough sleep, time off, and other things in life. Which just makes me be a lot more creative in trying to achieve these things.
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Personally, I think an hourly compensation is a more productive way to conduct business. This concept has its risks, and it is not for everyone. Howrever, the rewards can be exponentially higher and the drive to produce, also.
Steemit is an hourly reward system of sorts. Sure, there is more to it, but I always preferred working on my own clock.
This is very true about steemit. One could potintially post every hour or every minute and potentially earn from it. Then the question becomes quality and abuse.
Oh - I didn't mean to post a submission every hour on Steemit. No one would want to read too many posts.
A good post takes usually longer than an hour anyway. Steemit also has a mechanism that counters high frequency post rewards by taxing any post > 4 per 24 hour period, meaning, the rewards will decrease exponentially when that limit is exceeded. I would have to check the White Paper to make clarify.
Main point was: Being in control of your time, self-employed, is the biggy for me. I am starting my audio prod biz here in Panamá. An additional source of income, and i am good at it. Love what you do. Follow your heart.
I manage both, it doesn't make a difference.
Just different types of issues.
That’s fair, which pay structure would motivate you more?
I think employee engagement is required no matter what the pay structure.
People want to feel that they are valued and that their opinions matter. Some times a "thank you" or a "great work today" can go farther then an end of year bonus.
There will always be bad seeds who don't care no matter the situation. They look at work just as work.
I believe that the salary or the payment should be in accordance with the work done, whether by hours or complete, depends on the capacity and responsibility of the work that is being done. For example, a teacher or professor who works by the hour has a lot of commitment to his work and his salary should be according to his profile ... it is my humble opinion. Thanks for sharing.
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I agree, certain jobs generate more money than others too. However over all would you prefer to be paid hourly or salary?
In my work they pay me for hours and really, I must stretch the money to cover my needs ...
Hello Kubby!
I feel being paid hourly is the best. I was paid monthly at a point in time, but after we were put on part time, I began to do other things and even make more money!
In Brazil everyone is paid monthly and I wonder what that would be like since most people live paycheck to paycheck.
Nice post mate, I feel like I have lived the same experience with my brother. He was working as a 'manager' ,the specific word does not exist in my langage, but his job was to find commercial specialized in IT (programing) in order to put them on missions. He was making really good money but was working 12hours a day harassing some guys all day.
The thing is, I remenber when he had his deploma and post an announce on the internet, he received like 10 phone calls the first night it was online. So he was exactly in the situation of the peole he was managing a few years ago and was still complaining about it, like your brother.
But I think the thruth is, a manager is like a boss, but with less 'responsabilities' whereas at the end, to find the customer is the real problem for every businesses. 90% percent of the people work for the 10% that never gave up.
Maybe your brother has everything needed to open a better company that the one he is actually working for. But I guessed he never tried !? So how could he know.
I am not a teacher mate, I am nobody and I know nothing, but when I rode your story I felt we had exactly the same. My brother is way smarter than me but he will spend his life working for somebody...
If you ask yourself this kind of question maybe you have more emotionnal inteligence than your brother and him more IQ. I don't know you but I feel you should try something with your brother or at least have a talk about it..
At the end of the story my brother took another job, he earns half of what he did but he finishes every night at 6, and finally enjoy life again... He is happier like that and anybody would be...
At the end of the day work life balance is more important to me even if that means taking a pay cut.
While salary is important, I personally will work harder if I:
I don't really think about money when doing extra hours , it really depends on the above factors.
I agree those factors motive employees more than pay.
I think people that work harder should definitely get paid more than the ones that don't. I think there should be a minimum and a maximum pay for each job. The problem that I can see with this, is discrimination. Who gets to decide how much each individual gets paid? That is power that could be used against certain people.
I agree, so if you had to choose which pay structure would you go with? Salary or hourly?
If I was running a company, people would get paid hourly.
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