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In the Netherlands it is almost universal to discuss salaries in terms of monthly salary amount.
by davedx 9y ago
In the Netherlands it is almost universal to discuss salaries in terms of monthly salary amount.
- gpvos 9y agoYes, using the yearly salary as the main reference seems to be either a US or an Anglophone-world thing. What is commonly done in the UK and Ireland?
- lmm 9y agoIn the UK we talk about annual salary.
- matthewwarren 9y agoIn the UK, almost no-one talks about their salary ;-)
- jonathanbull 9y agoSpot on! On the rare occasion we do, it's discussed in terms of an annual amount.
- ascorbic 9y agoQuoted annually, paid monthly, discussed never.
- freehunter 9y ago(In the US) I actually found it weird when I was talking to a loan officer and he asked how much I made. I told him, and he about jumped out of his seat. "PER MONTH?! WHAT DO YOU NEED A LOAN FOR?!" I was flabbergasted. I'd never had someone ask me how much I make an expect me to say per month. I don't know how much I make per month. I know per year or per paycheck. If you want per month you'll have to get out the calculator, buddy.
- gpvos 9y agoIn the parts of Europe that I know of, if you have a median job, your paycheck is per month. That is why everyone knows that number the best: it's the one you see most often, appearing every month on your bank account.
- vec 9y agoA lot of jobs in the US pay biweekly, which comes out to a nice, round 2.166 paychecks per average calendar month. Paperwork here generally either asks for annual income or asks both paycheck and length of pay period.
- kungtotte 9y agoYes, unless you're self-employed and bill people, you pretty much always get paid monthly.
- mrkstu 9y agoSo its possible to have to wait more than a month for your first paycheck? i.e. start on the 1st and they pay on the 1st weekday of a new month for the past month? I'd hate to be loaning the company money that long every month.
- geon 9y agoIn sweden, salaries are traditionally paid the 25:th. An if you get paid per hour, your payment is usually for the previous month, so 56 days late.
- gpvos 9y agoIn the Netherlands also the 25th. However, if you get paid per hour, it may also be that you are paid weekly or biweekly, but indeed usually a cycle later.
- roel_v 9y agoIn Western Europe there doesn't seem to be a clear 'standard' of when ppl get paid. I know several people who are paid on the 10th each month, for example. (I happen to know this because they negotioted their rent payments to be on the 11th for properties they rent from me). Others are around 22-24; I used to get paid 28-30 in various jobs. There is probably a reason for this clustering, or maybe my sample size is too small and there is no clustering.
- dustinmoris 9y agoUK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand all think of yearly income. Continental Europe all speak exclusively of monthly salary. Also there is another flaw, the salary should have been multiplied by 14, because I believe that many European countries pay 2 extra salaries, one in summer and one in December.
- gpvos 9y agoDepends on the employer and, obviously, country. In the Netherlands, everyone gets "vacation money" somewhere in May/June. For me, it usually works out to a bit less than a month's salary. In December, many people get a "13th month", but many others like me don't.
- eeZah7Ux 9y ago> Continental Europe all speak exclusively of monthly salary Not true at all.
- bryondowd 9y agoInteresting. Months aren't all the same, especially if you get paid weekly/biweekly, which seems universal here in the US. I assume it's a weekly52/12 or biweekly26/12? That's what I use for my own personal budgeting, but I've never seen others refer to monthly pay before. I do find it convenient to think about pay this way, since so many expenses are on a monthly schedule (rent, utilities, credit cards, car loans, insurance). EDIT: OK, another comment specified that it's common to receive monthly pay in parts of Europe, rather than weekly/biweekly.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoGetting paid twice a month is common in the US too.
- yxhuvud 9y agoEh, that is what your parent comment says. As a Swede I find the concept strange. I get a monthly salary, and of course it is paid monthly (almost universally sometime between day 20 and 25 of the month).
- thaumasiotes 9y ago> Eh, that is what your parent comment says. No, what my parent comment says is that getting paid twice a month is very rare in the US. ("Months aren't all the same, especially if you get paid weekly/biweekly, which seems universal here in the US.") My parent comment is mistaken.
- khedoros1 9y agoThey're saying that being paid either weekly or biweekly (i.e. roughly 2 or 4 times a month) is nearly universal in the U.S, and that being paid monthly sounds less sensible, since months are of different lengths. ...Unless you're talking about the difference between biweekly and semimonthly?
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- kungtotte 9y agoSame in Sweden, regardless of how your wages are structured (monthly salary, hourly wages, performance based) everybody responds with what they make per month when asked how much they make.
- leipert 9y agoIn Germany as well. That's why I believe that the ~20 German users who answered with an annual salary < 3000 USD did answer the questionnaire wrongfully. The minimum wage in Germany is 8.50€/h. Assuming you work for the minimum wage, that would be 3000USD/8.5(€/h)/52 weeks = 6.41 h/week which does not seem plausible. For reference, the question from the questionnaire: > BASE: professional developer (Q100 == 1) AND currently employed (Q135 <= 3) Q320. What is your current annual salary, in [currency from Q310]? Please enter a whole number in the box below, without any punctuation. If you prefer not to answer, please leave the box empty / blank.
- thephyber 9y agoI think the common thread here is that leaving the pay period to be unknown / arbitrary certainly calls into question any validity of this effort.
- saheel1511 9y agoSame in most of India.