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About $35 / hour as a freelance translator working from home. (varies from 0 - 30 hours a week, averaging about 10, which is how I like it.)

$0 / hour for cooking, cleaning, paying bills, taking care of kids, and generally handling anything not related to going to my husband's place of employment for 8 hours a day. (It's not that bad.....he helps a lot with the kids and cooking when he's home.)

$? / hour from my brand spanking new online shop selling imported American stickers for children and hobbyists in the Netherlands. (No plug-link here )

Currently $0 AU per anything

About £20 a month on eBay, though I usually spend it all.

Been selling a lot lately though, hardly had anything unsold...not going to plug my shop though!

I want to become a professional actor. How do I do it?

I started acting as an off shoot of modeling. I have done a bunch of calendars, posters, print ads, etc. (somewhere in the realm of 4 or 5 hundred shoots to date) and my agent starting getting requests that I show up for auditions a few years ago, I believe in 2000. I did, and kept getting the jobs I auditioned for, it wasn’t really anything I tried to do, just sort of fell into it.

I make $6.20 an hour at fast food.

I have $6,317 in my savings account, $4,000 in CD's, and $311 in checking.

It's great to have next to no bills. Plus I have no life so I can save or spend as I please. What do you think I do?

8 years ago I was making about $8/hr doing machine shop work with little hope of getting much above that. I switched to a software testing job and am about to start a new job at $35. It's a contract position with no benefits so it's probably comparible to a $30ish regular job. I'd make more writing code instead of breaking it, but I wouldn't enjoy it nearly as much.

I just finished the first day of my new job today at a small factory not too far from where I live. I start at $9.00 an hour

Neuroman wrote:
I'm an idea generator so I hope one day to generate an idea I can follow through on. My colleague says I can talk the bark off a tree, but I can only do it for something I believe in. So I could sell you a solar powered atomic watch, but I couldn't sell you a car.


That sounds exactly like my husband. Is that you, honey?


Seriously, I make 15-20 dollars an hour cleaning houses. I hate it, but I'm good at it and it helps our family financially. I can pretty much choose my own hours and rearrange my schedule if I need to. The high pay for a short amount of time away from home along with the flexibility is a big bonus at this stage in my life. I hope to be teaching special ed. in 3 years. By then my youngest child will be in 1st grade and our schedules will match. I dream of running a charter school for kids with "learning differences". That would be awesome.

My total gross income last year divided by 2080 (40hrs a week, 52 weeks year) breaks down to $36 an hour.

In my last job I got payed around 10 dollars an hour, now I get about on average about 78 dollars a week in benefits until I get another job.

I get an NHS Bursary and its not nearly enough money. Infact on monday im going out of my way to have a go at them that they still owe me an extra £90 a month because i now count as a mature student and because of aspegers should get disability on top of that.

In my previous job I was taking home £900 a month. In the job before that which was agency work as a health care assistant in north london and hertfordshire it wasn't unusual for me to rake in £900 a week. One time i worked a 60 hour week and i earned over £1500 Not bad for a grade A

Aside from the number of hours worked there's many other things that go into determining a salary:

- the time of day of work (quality of life lost to night shifts, split shifts, etc.)

- place of work (outdoors in winter versus indoor, air-conditioned and heated office)

- risk associate with work (odds and effects of workplace injury)

- consequence of failure (stress at work)

- carry-over responsibility (stress at home)

- reward for loyalty (seniority differential)

- reward for effort (performance raises)

- reward for disproportionate impact on revenue (extra business due to presence of a particular person, i.e. "star power")

- personal investment (time and money spent getting the training/degree)

- financial investment (partners mortgage their homes to start the company and therefore deserve to earn more)

- labour supply and demand (some jobs are just harder to fill and you have to compete with other companies that are hiring)

- negotiating strength (you get paid the salary you negotiate, not the salary you deserve)

I don't think that people keep their salaries confidential in order to protect unfair, arbitrary or discriminatory hiring practises. Mostly I think it's to preserve the peace. It's one of those things you don't discuss with strangers, just like sex, religion and politics.

I've worked in enough companies to see how people react to salary disclosures. In places where there is a lot of disparity between employees, those who earn less tend to resent those who earn more. They don't think of all of the other variables that go into the salary, and automatically assume they are being unfairly under-paid relative to those who earn more. Morale and productivity suffers because a "minimum work for minimum wage" mentality sets in. In places where there is wage parity, those people who bring extra value to the work-place feel that they are not appreciated. As with the prior case, morale and productivity suffer because nobody wants to work harder than the others if there is no chance at reward.

In social situations, people who voluntarily reveal that they earn more than the rest are seen as bragging. Whether the information gets out voluntarily or not, there is also a strain created because even in capitalist countries there is a degree of "Robin Hood" socialism present. Just ask anyone who's ever won the lottery how many complete strangers expected a hand-out of some sort. Capitalism is supposed to be all about working hard to get ahead, but people only respect that success as long as they are comparing themselves to someone who is doing *slightly* better. When they see a wide gap they think of themselves as victims of unfair or arbitrary discrimination, or at the very least think of the other person as somehow undeserving.

This is true if the HR director is competent. When the HR director is a power-hungry, ambitious a****** of a bully, the wage differential denotes favoritism for playing to her rules. If you are told that your salary is the result of a scale with different values assigned for previous experience and prior wage, you accept that because it makes sense. You know others are going to make more than you because you've not had a very high paying job, even though you have three years of experience.

But when you find out that a NEW HIRE with ZERO work experience (which means ZERO comparative wage) is getting $2 more an hour than you are AFTER A $1 RAISE, it tends to rub you the wrong way. And when you find out that ANOTHER new hire with the same no work experience is making $5 more than you, you tend to get really irritated. Wage differentials don't bother me if the rules are followed. I don't care if someone makes more than I do if the parameters by which MY salary was decided are used to decide the salary of others, or if the interviewer was honest and told me right up why I make what I make. The arbitrary enforcement is what bothers me. I'm used to not getting top wages because I SUCK at job interviews. I also don't like the HR making a HUGE deal of giving me a dollar raise, which now brings me to the $2 below a new hire because I know they are being patronizing twits and they know they are being patronizing twits...I am not bitter.

Maybe that's just because I work for the Anti-Christ of corporations.

hiya,

I work part time so how much i earn is not really very comparable.

I get paid between £5 - 7.50 and hour depending on what i am doing. but for my age (i am 16) that is a good rate. my job is a website backend developer and database administrator.

Jammie

$3 per hour as a virtual assistant