I think this is mostly a US thing. Why use yearly salary? You’re not paid once a year, are you? Most likely once a month. Referencing monthly salary makes much more sense.

“I’m making 50k”. Great, now I have to guess - dollars? Monthly? Yearly? If yearly then what’s the monthly paycheck? Net? Gross?

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    11 months ago

    Lol who would hear “I’m making 50k” and think it’s anything other than per year unless they just stepped out of a private jet…

    I feel like this might be confusing only if you are under the age of 14 and have no idea how money or the world works…

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        Not in basically all of the English speaking world. USD, CAD, AUS, Pounds, Euros, NZD. 50k a month or week or whatever you for some reason think it might be other than a year would be an insane amount of money to make.

        I bet you’re the kind of person that hates it when you ask the time and people respond by rounding it to the nearest 10 minutes…

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      I know people who make 50k per month and don’t have jets. I make 30k p/m but I’ll get there one day. It’s crazy how when I was broke making $20/hour in a cafe that I thought everyone or most people are broke but now I’m making modest money it’s crazy how many other entrepreneurs are in my circle now. Just wow.