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What's with telling YEARLY salaries?

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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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Blizzard@lemmy.zipOP
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Depends on the currency.

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Earl Turlet@lemmy.zip
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Did you just assume my ¥der?

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Especially_the_lies@startrek.website
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That was funnier than it should have been

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Earl Turlet@lemmy.zip
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The exchange rate is pretty good right now.

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Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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Not in basically all of the English speaking world. USD, CAD, AUS, Pounds, Euros, NZD. 50k a month or week or whatever you for some reason think it might be other than a year would be an insane amount of money to make.

I bet you’re the kind of person that hates it when you ask the time and people respond by rounding it to the nearest 10 minutes…

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ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works
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Not really. It’s usually obvious from context. Unless you’re trying to be an intentionally obtuse pedant?

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MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works
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OK, how many people are getting jobs paid in foreign currency?

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mrsgreenpotato@discuss.tchncs.de
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We’re on the Internet, how should anyone know what’s “your” currency?

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MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works
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Because you’re fucking applying to jobs that exist within some defined country.

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Blizzard@lemmy.zipOP
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Foreign to whom?

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MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works
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Foreign to where they work.

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happyhippo@feddit.it
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Thanks, captain Obvious

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