• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    19 hours ago

    And here I thought people would usually be told their wage before they sign their employment contract … are precarious contracts where you get paid by the hour and don’t get the same amount of hours every month or depend on tips/bonuses (lol “tips”) that common in the US?

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      18 hours ago

      Normally, the shock comes once you see the net amount after taxes, health insurance, medicare/medicaid, and social security have been deducted.

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        18 hours ago

        I usually calculate the actual net income even before signing … IDK if it’s harder to calculate in the US, but the calculators I used for wages in my country predicted the actual net wage fairly accurately.