As an employer: How do you decide how to pay your employees? It’s always fascinating for me to hear the cases for salary vs. hourly pay, but having experience in both… I feel a very strong preference for one over the other. I think this decision is a combination of job type and personality type of the worker. What type of job are you hiring for? As I’ll get into below, there are certain jobs I think can only really work for hourly pay. Retail jobs that require someone to be there for store hours is a perfect example: people…...
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Allison Wojtowecz Allison is the creator of Flabs to Fitness, Inc., an online fitness, nutrition, and wellness coaching platform and content creation firm for other health-oriented companies. She has a B.A. in Acting and a B.S. in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at Austin and still lives in Austin today. She uses both of her degrees professionally, building her company by day and performing Shakespeare and standup comedy by night. She enjoys studying mindset and its implications for human behavior...including investment decisions. In her "spare" time, she enjoys hunting, reading, and traveling.
Which is Better: Hourly or Salary Pay?
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As an employer: How do you decide how to pay your employees? It’s always fascinating for me to hear the cases for salary vs. hourly pay, but having experience in both… I feel a very strong preference for one over the other. I think this decision is a combination of job type and personality type of the worker. What type of job are you hiring for? As I’ll get into below, there are certain jobs I think can only really work for hourly pay. Retail jobs that require someone to be there for store hours is a perfect example: people…...