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cthulu2016

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2. Yup. American workers are poorly compensated. (A paid holidy is a raise)

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 12:41 PM

Nov 2013

Paid off-time is equivalent to a pay increase. At the end of the year your real hourly rate is higher.

And looked at that way, we Americans are even worse paid than we think.

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