Salary versus Hourly??

[ScrubsAndSneakers]

I currently work in Assisted Living making $21 an hour. I am on call one weekend a month and work 3 weekends a month. There is plenty of overtime available.

I have recently been offered a salaried position that averages out to about $24 an hour. I would be on call Monday through Friday and would not work any weekends. Of course there is no overtime with this salary position.

Which position would you choose?

[amoLucia]

With all those gaps in the schedule (that accounts for all the avail overtime) I would bet that there would be lots of shifts to cover. If you're the on-call person, you'd have to go in (stay) and cover. Think about it - you want to go to your kiddo's recital or parents' anniversary dinner. Oops! Sorry! You're stuck!!! (And yes it does happen.)

As salaried, you most probably would NOT get paid for the overtime. So you'd be pretty much doing time for free for them. They may PROMISE you comp time, but just try to use any accrued! Unless you have a very fair and reasonable employer ...

I'd be curious if this was a NEW approach by Administration to avoid paying overtime to hourly staff by plugging in with salaried staff ??? You may not be in the loop to know this little bit of hanky-panky.

Personally, I wouldn't go salary. I'd stay hourly. I never minded working weekends as it would give me weekday time to accomplish things.

Bottom line is that when you go home, you just leave the job! Work stays at work. You don't have to worry about some unexpected obligation impinging on your time.

JMHO and 3 pennies worth.