Not exactly a language related question. But when talking about salary, do you think of $ per month/year or $ per hour as this meme probably implies?

Salaried Americans (Non hourly) always talk about their salary per year. Other countries will talk about it monthly, but I don’t know which.

American. It depends if me (or the person I’m talking with) is salaried or paid hourly. Most people I know, know their pay both yearly and per hour and can easily converse either way

Depends on whether you are an hourly or a salaried employee.

Im gonna assume by hour, though honestly I'd still feel this if it was yearly lol

depends, are you rich but in public you call yourself "comfortable," or a slave to subsistence wages but you call it "staying on my grind"

Normally I’d say hourly, but the picture implies salaried employees.

Salary is generally spoken of in terms of annual pay, wage is usually how we refer to hourly pay, and if we want to talk about monthly pay, we specify per month somehow. (In North America this is true, maybe not elsewhere)

Either per year or per hour, depending on the context. I typically default to per year in my head, but I use per hour a lot for practical reasons. I never use per month.

Per hour, but I'm also an hourly worker. Salaries that people discuss are typically the full annual amount made, and a salaried employee is in a different employment situation than an hourly one. There are usually different legal protections and expectations for hourly vs. salaried workers. For example, (this depends on location of course) an hourly worker is typically entitled to "time and a half" for any hours worked in excess of 40 per week. This would mean that they would get 50% more pay for working overtime. As an hourly worker, I usually talk about what I make from that perspective. I do also talk about my annual pay, but because I'm hourly it can vary a lot more than a salary would. If I take several weeks off of work, I would make less money. If I pick up extra shifts, I'd make more. A salaried person doing either of those things would typically make their salary without much changing unless they had a side job or received significant bonuses.

If you use the word "salary" that usually implies annual/yearly to me. But from the context given here, that seems unlikely to be what they're talking about. If you're an hourly employee and talking about your hourly wage, I'd usually say your "pay" or your "wage"

The answer is slightly different in different English speaking countries because it depends on laws and common practices around employment not just on the English language. But fundamentally lower paid, non-professional workers like people who work in restaurants & hotels, laborers on building sites, cleaners, road workers, etc have employment contracts or employment agreements that specify how much pay they get as **an hourly rate**. Others like teachers, nurses, government office workers, employee doctors & lawyers, accountants have contracts that specify their entitlements in terms of **an annual salary** which is then paid on a particular basis like monthly, fortnightly or weekly. Often the number of hours some professionals work isn’t even specified, it’s a days work even if you stay until 10pm one day dealing with a crisis. Some people will work out what the hourly rate *would be* for a professional job based on working standard hours but that doesn’t mean it’s an accurate reflection of their entitlements. Paid leave days complicate the whole thing too. It’s much more accurate to think of professional jobs in annual salary terms.

It depends on the type of job. A lot of people work and are paid on an hourly basis. Those people would usually think of pay in terms of hours. Many other people also work salaried which means they have a specific income they get that's not reliant on the number of hours they work. Those people are more likely to think of their pay in terms of how much they get each paycheque.

Either, depending. Colloquially the difference is salary (monthly pay) vs wage (hourly pay) Professional office setting type of ("white collar") tends to be salaried and is usually discussed as $ per month/year Work in retail, food service, and professional trades ("blue collar") is more typically for wages, $ per hour A professional in a suit, in a meeting room, talking about $3/hr seems a bit unnatural for that reason

Your salary is your annual income. Your wage is your hourly income.

So, this meme is definitely implying hourly pay. I'm American, and hourly pay is typically referred to as "wages." Salary refers to annual pay scale. In the US, salary workers are usually paid the same amount regardless of how many hours they work.

Its per hour, its typical for ‘per hour’ to be more or less by anything from 0.05 to $10 Depending on the job of course If it was monthly or yearly it wpuld be more or less by even more than just $3

From context of this meme, hourly. If it was $3 a month extra, that's an almost nothing difference in pay. If it was $3 a year, then it's either the weirdest salary decision to pay someone $3 more (unlikely), or their hourly rate is like $0.001 more than the other person which just wouldn't happen. Anyway, the context is what matters. If the value is low, like $0.50 to $10, then expect it to be an hourly rate being discussed. If it's a middle value - say $20-$200 (or your currency equivalent), expect it to be monthly. If it's a larger value, like $200+, then it's probably about annual salary.

Per hour

Normally hourly for hourly workers and yearly for salaried workers. In some countries, salaried workers will talk about their monthly salary but that's not common in the US. If someone talked about a monthly salary I'd assume they were talking about a seasonal job.

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For the meme, an hour. In general, annual.

In the US I mostly hear hourly and yearly. But I do know some people who live pay check to pay check who refer to their monthly income. If I saw this meme I would assume they were referring to hourly income.