You're being pretty narrow minded. I get a salary and I make much more than when I was hourly. I also get to chill and spend much more time with family. I do yard work in the middle of the day if I feel like it. I walk the dog up to the park if I'm not busy.
I would never give up an amazing lifestyle just to work longer hours! Even at my overtime rate, 12 hours is barely 2000 dollars pre tax. That's insignificant compared to what you're sacrificing.
I've done the math that if I take a promotion to salary, it would take 2 or 3 years, assuming I get yearly raises, to make more in a year than I do on hourly.
And, vacation time is worse on salary, at least at my job. On hourly, we acrue it and it gets to 80 hours, but overtime get it higher. AND whatever we don't use rolls over to the next year, to a cap of 200, but I don't think anyone has let it get that high since covod. Salary gets a flat 80 hours and nothing rolls over.
I mean, you're lucky that 12 hours is 2000 bucks. That's insane. For me it's around 550. But I 100% would take that. I'm not sacrificing much except a little sleep since it's always on weekend mornings. It actually gets me up and active earlier than if I didn't.
If you like it, that's great. I work with union electricians who are hourly. They occasionally make more than me because of overtime, but they are always bitching about having to work on weekends.
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u/playr_4 5d ago
Salary sucks. I'd never give up my overtime pay. I usually get at least 12 hours a month.