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Re: Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work?

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Post by yitchelle »

throway2432 wrote: post #6

I think this is a good thing - in fact I'm sharing my specifics with you because I think it could help out others. I have 20 years professional experience. Systems admin -> DBA -> software developer, with lots of overlap with each role change. Job #1, 20 hours a week, no set schedule. $115k USD salary, no benefits. Yearly bonus is 5-15%. Less than 50 employees. Job #2 30 hours a week, set schedule, $122k USD salary,…

That's a interesting combination, especially to the benefits. Is that because you are only entitled to received benefits from only one salaried position?

Re: Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work?

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Post by interactivecode »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #66
sopooneo wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry. Didn't mean to be coy. But, to make the math easier, imagine a full timer 25 days of vacation per year = five weeks. Great. Now let's say that person goes down to 80% time, working four days a week. Now they only earn 25 days * 80% = 20 days of vacation per year. But this person only works four days a week. So to spend a full week away only requires using up four vacation days. (20 days of vacation) / (4 days/…

Ah, thanks. This only works if you work fewer days per week as opposed to fewer hours per day.

don't know about you but my vacation days are calculated per hour. hence people sometimes take half a day off

Re: Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work?

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Post by ponyous »

nbrempel wrote: post #5

You might also ask yourself if a person working half the time is half as productive. There is evidence to support the idea that a person working a bit less per week can actually maintain the same weekly output: https://4dayweek.com In any case, I run a job board and newsletter for companies and job candidates who want flexible working hours: https://30hourjobs.com Please feel free (as in free beer!) to post jobs on t…

I am working 3days per week these days and I believe I produce equal amount as I did in 4 days before. Note I worked 5 days before, but my effectiveness was lower because I didn't want to burnout. With 3 days a week it's easy to give your 100% and be chill next few days.

What I want to say is, that I am way more motivated and I think I am better value for money than on 5 days work weeks.

Re: Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work?

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Post by jerrre »

pingyong wrote: post #73
asdkfjasl wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mostly agree, although it's worth noting that there are probably some fixed overheads of being employed that eat up some of the otherwise expected benefits. Let's consider a scenario where there are 4h average fixed overhead for working at a company. Now let's run the 0.6 time vs. 1.0 time scenarios. 1.0 time. 40h - 4h overhead = 36h. Pay = 1. Work-to-pay ratio is 36h:1p. 0.6 time. 24h - 4h overhead = 20h. Pay = 0.…

>You'd have to suppose that the 0.6 time worker is at least 1.1x as productive per hour just to break even. IMO that is easily achievable. Probably an underestimation. People who work for 6 hours, 4 days a week are going to be vastly more concentrated and rested. Physical labor might be different, but jobs that require mainly mental effort/creativity will benefit a lot from being rested. Wasn't there a company that t…

Who says they will rest in the downtime?

Re: Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work?

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Post by elindbe2 »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #79
elindbe2 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Women are more likely to desire part time hours because they are always the ones who are getting pregnant and typically the ones raising small children.

Isn't it a private matter for a woman to decide whether to raise a child or not - regardless of the common good child rearing brings - assuming women raise children is wrong, and sexist too. There's statutory parental leave to cover pregnancy already. To mimic your response: men are the ones with the muscles, they are _typically_ stronger therefore we should discriminate. Seems wrong. (I'm just returning to my former…

> assuming women raise children is wrong, and sexist too.

I have no need to assume this because this is actually the case. This is reality today. When women stop being the primary ones raising the children then there will no longer be a need to be protections aiding them in finding part time work, but that is for some hypothetical future.

Re: Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work?

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Post by planetburgess »

stepbeek wrote: post #70
dwb wrote: post #24

You're seriously considering paying part-time employees less per hour than full-time employees? Am I really reading that right?

Sorry, I was a little ambiguous. We're not considering paying less per unit time. This is fully illegal in the UK even if we did consider it. What we are considering is whether a part-time employee is significantly more productive per unit time to such an extent that pro-rated pay would be considered unfair.

Pro rata is considered fair. On the same way that overtime pay is considered fair if you have to work extra hours.
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