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Is the same type position being offered as salary and hourly?
If so, are you even able to get either job? Meaning, did you apply and were offered both types? If not, it kind of negates the question, unless you are willing to keep looking.
How much OT will be worked in either position?
What about benefits?
How about the salary/pay raise structure for each?
Is one position considered more in the Admin side? Some companies that do have similar positions for hourly and salary consider the salary a more permanent position or more in a management role (and may be less susceptible to sudden layoffs.)
I like being hourly but doesn't matter to my job... I've been both doing the same job at different companies, I clock in, do work, clock out. Salary/hourly didn't matter, I got paid for 40 hours and I don't have work to take home so I get paid for what I work and that's that.
But being hourly, means I get overtime easier, being salaried, the first 1 hour of overtime went unpaid but I could leave early if I didn't have work left and still get paid the same 40 hours. It's all the same to me but I just like being paid hourly because I worked it and that's how I like being paid... But at $30/hour, or $60k/year salaried, it's all pretty much the same to me.
It depends on the job though, some salaried people put in a lot of "unpaid" hours...
No right answer. Different jobs have different factors that may favor one over the other.
As many have pointed out, many employees may be better off if they were paid hourly as they put in more than 40 a week.
Although I do have to question - of those, how many are actually working every hour of the work day? I know that while I may be at the office 8 hours a day (and bring some work home) - I'm not always working every minute of that 8 hours.
Personally - salary is what i prefer. Basically give me a job/role. As long as I fulfill it, pay me that salary. I know on average, I will not have to work more than 40 hours a week.
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I prefer salaried. When I was hourly I rarely had to work overtime but a few extra hours actually lowered my pay check due to changing the tax withholding rate. Now being salaried means I am payed not by the hour but by the "body of work." I still rarely work more than 40 hours (without overtime pay) but at the same time leave early or arrive late at times without any need to ask permission or use PTO. It pretty much balances out, with my work getting done and the salaried pay is significantly higher than what I made when hourly.
I worked for a major corporation and instead of salaried or hourly they called it exempt and non-exempt. Exempt had to have a degree and could rise to managerial rank, non-exempt could be foreman. I prefer exempt, much higher wages. However, not all degreed employees are exempt. Much like the military officers and enlisted.
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