What does "competitive hourly wage" mean?
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No, that means the wages offered at their company is similar or very close to other companies' offering the same type of service. For example, if you apply at Wal-Mart and they offer x amount of money, they are competitive since Target also offers the same amount of money.
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If its on paper, put what you think is right for the job. How would you know that? ask around you can get opinions from the said stores just by asking the staff how much ( without sounding a bit tacky as to how much a typical employee would get on an hourly basis) in a casual manner. Do some research and visit these stores, you will get a sense of what they make and what the working conditions are like. You could also go to salary.com and find out what the national/ regional  average is. If you are asked during an interview let them know how much you want but emphasize the fact  that you are willing to negotiate.
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Hours Conditions and Wages
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equal pay means receiving the same salary for the same work,,,, comparable worth in this context, means jobs of similar skills/difficulty/importance,,,, this expression "equal pay for comparable worth" has been used in reference to the inequality in the pay women receive,,, and jobs that are traditionally held by women\n\nif you take the skills necessary for some of the work, and equate that to traditionally "man" held jobs,,,,,, you will see it.... examples are child care/elderly care/ elementary school teachers/ waitresses /  secretaries etc
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$7.75/hour plus commision
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it means that the sum is broken down in to hours and you are paid for the hours worked for example \nyou take a job that is 20k pro rata and \nyou work part time - say 3 days a week (24hours). \nthe 20K is split in to weeks (£20000/52wks = £385.62 per week),\nthen split in to working hours (£385.62/40hrs = £9.64 per hour) \nThen it is built back up again to get your true salary -\n£9.64 per hour * 24 hours = £241 per week\n£241 per week x 52 weeks = £12,532\nthe last figure is the amount you can aexpect to get paid for working 24 hours a week on a pro rata of £20k\nhope this helps
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That may be unique to California (their kinda weird out there compared to the rest of the country any how) Federal wage and hour laws require (in most cases) that time and one half be payed for any more than 8 hours in any one day and over 40 hours in any week. Their are no requirements for an employer to pay double time, triple time etc. unless it is a part of some kind of contract (union or other wise) so you will have to check with your state's wage and hour board.
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An employee and an employer should be able to decide what the fair market wage is for the job at hand.  If $8.50 is what the market dictates then that should be a good starting point.  If you feel you are worth more and can show the employer that they would be better off in hiring you at a higher rate than some other bloke off the street then you and the employer should be able to negotiate that.\n\nIn Liberty,\nEric H. Smith
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Salary means that the company owns yur ASS becuase you have to work a set number of hours for the pay, and normally, you will never see overtime pay of bonuses.  Salary jobs SUCK, I would stay hrly and long as possible.
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If you're a salaried employee you will make the same amount regardless of how many hours you work.  This includes if you work less than specified.  However, if you're hourly, then they must pay you for each hour worked - by law.
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i recently looked this up for myself but it depends on where you live here is something that i found in general\nEntry Wage\n\n$10.74\n\nMedian Wage\n\n$12.02\n\nExperienced Wage\n\n$13.31
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74.25 / 9 = 8.25 ---Hourly wage\n\n8.25 x 15 = 123.75
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Approximately $12-$15 per hour.
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From the same article linked to by JayNick, \n\nWal-Mart's average wage is around $10 an hour.\n\nAs Tom Geoghegan, a labor lawyer in Washington (and author of Which Side Are You On?: Trying To Be For Labor When It's Flat On Its Back) points out, the relevant number isn't the average, which would be skewed upward by the large salaries of relatively few highly-paid company executives—Scott, for example, receives, by one reckoning, 897 times the pay of the average Wal-Mart worker—but the median. In the Dec. 16 New York Review of Books, Simon Head, director of the Project on Technology and the Workplace at the Century Foundation, stated, "the average pay of a sales clerk [italics mine] at Wal-Mart was $8.50 an hour, or about $14,000 a year, $1,000 below the government's definition of the poverty level for a family of three." That the current minimum wage of $5.15 per hour leaves families even farther below the poverty line is a depressing topic for another day.
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Anything you do for a Profit is considered a profession.\n As oppossed to working for a company and excepting wages for your service. Your labor talent is of a skill that it's worth a set price per Job. Instead of a set price per hour.
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It varies from state to state and province to province.  It depends also on whether they are members of a union.  Generally the salaries are not high.  Where I live they range from about $13 to $16 an hour, with usually 5 or 6 hours a day at most.
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The minimum wage was not necessarily established with the expectation that one would have to make do living on that wage.  There are people who are actually supported by others who are happy to receive 5.25 an hour--namely but not limited to teen agers.  Others might include retired people wanting to add a little income and perhaps others with a full time job wanting to make a little extra.