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I view my salary as compensation for my work, not my time clocked. I’m inefficient, I take on too much, and therefore, I honor my word and finish what I agree too (within reason), and sometimes that takes 60-70 hours, sometimes that takes 30. While it could be partly due to pressure from my employer, it’s more of a me issue than anything else
I’ve been unofficially working like this as well. Some weeks 25-30 hours, some weeks if on a super busy project 50+ past 6 months though I’ve been averaging 40’s which has been great.
Hourly employees are paid for the hours they work. Salaried employees are paid for a job they need to do. If, as a salaried employee, the job you are being asked to do takes more hours than you are comfortable with, then the job isn’t for you.
I don’t disagree entirely, but I think it needs to be clear up front. If an employer makes it seem like a job will have good wlb and suddenly they expect 80 hours a week, that’s not cool.
Pro
For $50K a year, absolutely correct. For $500K a year, the OT is built into the number.
Yes! To add context I make mid-60s.
I’m not working over 45 hours a week. If you want me to pay me overtime and no consulting is not for me but it’s weird y’all have developed these standards that wreck your mental health.
Chief
Why did you pick 40 as your threshold? Why not 15? Or 65?
Chief
If you’re okay with making the average salary in 2019, I think 40 hours per week is fair.
When I’m staffed on a project, I’m typically between 40-45 hours a week. For the past several months I’ve been on 2 (one of them is just a few hours a week) so that’s been closer to 55-60 hours in billable hours; the internal stuff can add another 5 or 10 to it, depending on what’s going on. I don’t care for those kind of hours and am rolling off of that smaller project at the end of this week.
I don’t really mind even the 45-50 hour weeks because I know it’ll balance out when I’m not staffed or projects have a lull. We’re not really in a profession where there’s a hard stop at 40 hours each and every week.