• gentooer@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    Over here in Belgium we do, I thought that’s how it’s done in most countries. It makes more sense to me too, you get your salary monthly (or maybe fortnightly like you) and you talk about your rent, debt payments, … also on a monthly basis.

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      7 months ago

      In the U.S., most salary jobs are spoken about in annual terms. Job listing’s list annual salary, offer letters list annual pay, my employee portal lists annual pay, etc. My pay stubs are biweekly though. Pretty much nothing is ever described in monthly terms, at least not that I’ve ever seen.

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      7 months ago

      In NZ we would talk annual salary, rent per week, and we just don’t talk about mortgage payments because it’s easier not to.

      I think we probably do annual salary because there isn’t consistency with how people are paid. Weekly and fortnightly are probably the most common, but monthly is pretty normal too and I’ve seen some being paid twice monthly.