I was recently promoted to a management position and put on salary. My concern is that my paycheck looks the same as it did when I worked hourly. It has 80 hours for two weeks at 16.00 per hour, but I don't punch in/out. Is this how a salary paycheck should look? I'm concerned because that may effect how my resume is formatted, and we all know that a properly formatted resume is important. I always thought salary was measured in how much per year, not per hour.

I work in Pennsylvania

ebaines

This is not at all unusual - even though you are paid an annual salary the paycheck may indeed record your standard hours worked, as well as hours for vacation and sick time taken. The important question is: did you get a raise with this promotion, and if you multiply the $16/hour by 2080 hours/year does the math work out right?

Gfmotz

Well when I was promoted I was told I was salaried but I never got a yearly number. The only number I got was the 16 per hour. Should I have received a number for what I make per year?

Fr_Chuck

you are confused about the situation, Salary is a term for what should be called an exempt employee, it is based actually not on how you are paid, but on the actual job requirements and if that job meets the requirements for a exempt position.

next no your paycheck looks exactly like it always does in 90 percent of all companies because computer payroll systems ( that writes the checks) are based on hours per week time money. In the case of salary people, the issue is you dont record your hours, and the number of hours don't change,

It may show vaction days, holidays on a seperate line like it always did, since those types of benifits are normally tracked differently in computer.
And esp to people who were never salary before, many companiies explain it in hourly ( since it normally sounds like more if you were used to other hourly pay) of course they forget to tell you that working 90 or 100 hours during that 80 hout period is not unusual in most places also.

your yearly is 33280 If you were used to asking yearly, most likely they would have disucssed it.