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I think this is mostly a US thing. Why use yearly salary? You're not paid once a year, are you? Most likely once a month. Referencing monthly salary makes much more sense.

"I'm making 50k". Great, now I have to guess - dollars? Monthly? Yearly? If yearly then what's the monthly paycheck? Net? Gross?

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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lol who would hear "I'm making 50k" and think it's anything other than per year unless they just stepped out of a private jet...

I feel like this might be confusing only if you are under the age of 14 and have no idea how money or the world works...

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Not in basically all of the English speaking world. USD, CAD, AUS, Pounds, Euros, NZD. 50k a month or week or whatever you for some reason think it might be other than a year would be an insane amount of money to make.

I bet you're the kind of person that hates it when you ask the time and people respond by rounding it to the nearest 10 minutes...

[–] EarlTurlet@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you just assume my ¥der?

[–] Especially_the_lies@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was funnier than it should have been

[–] EarlTurlet@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

The exchange rate is pretty good right now.

[–] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Not really. It's usually obvious from context. Unless you're trying to be an intentionally obtuse pedant?

[–] austin@aussie.zone -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know people who make 50k per month and don’t have jets. I make 30k p/m but I’ll get there one day. It’s crazy how when I was broke making $20/hour in a cafe that I thought everyone or most people are broke but now I’m making modest money it’s crazy how many other entrepreneurs are in my circle now. Just wow.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Lol this piss take xD