Search results for query: *

The job I was on in PA recently was certified payroll. My hourly rate almost doubled on that job. I'm usually exempt. I've been on jobs where I wasn't making much more than laborers.

It's still part of the negotiation whether explicitly stated or not. Every employee is worth $x. That's the total cost to support that employee, with wages, benefits, unemployment insurance, whatever. There's a little wiggle room where the negotiations live, but the employee won't see the total...

It literally is, and doesn't require creative accounting to come up with that. Union work may be different, but regular people get paid less due to the higher cost of unemployment insurance. If not for that, your paycheck should be fatter. You're taking a loss up front for money down the road...