If you work overtime in a week and aren’t paid for it then you have taken a pay cut for that week.

You worked more hours but made the same amount of money. Therefore the amount you made per hour is lower than your usual amount.

Bingo. That's what a lot of people don't get with there high salaries. On paper they sound amazing.

But if you calculate hours worked and salaries. More often then not. There promotion for example made them earn less and less per hour.

But as someone wrote on hackernews: if your company is using the emotional path they don't have anything to offer on the rational level.

tl;DR: calculate your income per hour, not monthly salary!

> if your company is using the emotional path they don't have anything to offer on the rational level.

Stealing this for my “don’t work for a startup” site!

It is not from me either :)

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