Also why are some blue collar workers making more than accountants who had to get in debt and nearly kill themselve for a career that pays less than a garbage man.
2006-07-07 15:18:43 · 9 answers · asked by ooo 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Personal Finance
The reason that accountants are salaried is that they usually work 40 hours a week in an office. The reason that some blue collar workers make more money than even engineers is that some companies that are older and large have had unions create a pay scale putting them ahead of most other people. Also, the blue collar workers can work extra hours to get overtime which is where the difference in income is seen more so.
2006-07-07 17:00:54 · answer #1 · answered by andy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Professional jobs are usually salaried and these jobs usually don't post salaries --- it is negotiated during the interview process. IMHO there are two "accounting tracks" --- one is more of a bookkeeping track -- the person does the entries, may have a B.S., top level is maybe accounting manager. The other "track" begins when the person graduates from college, goes to work for a public accounting firm for a few years, gets his/her CPA and THEN goes to work for a corporation, often at a much higher level -- often supervising people in the first "track". I think that unfortunately many people go into accounting without understanding this.
2006-07-07 15:31:17 · answer #2 · answered by JSG 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The salary usually aren't posted because it's negotiable. Also, public accounting is one of the hottest career out there. Are you talking about CPA positions? The salary climb is much better than that of many because I've heard of no garbage man salary in 6 figure range. 'Just keep looking.
2006-07-07 15:25:19 · answer #3 · answered by Nikki W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salaried people are expected to work way more than 40 hours per week, and they do not get overtime. They usually work 40 hours, though.
Blue collars work a LOT of overtime to make the money...their time is not their own.
Some of the blue collar worker at my plant make $100,000 a year. But they are working 7 days a week or 12 hour days.
2006-07-07 15:22:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a CPA working salaried way more than 40hrs. If there were a job which paid more that I could do, I'd do it.
Go be a garbage man if it is so great and promising...the difference is, I'm 31 now pulling down a lot more than the 36K I pulled down when I was 21...
The garbage men beat me then too. But they don't any more.
Do your time in the trenches, and if you are any good, it'll pay later.
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2016-11-06 01:56:56 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The key to not posting the salary or going to the DOE mantra is to maintain the negotiability factor.
2006-07-07 15:39:32 · answer #7 · answered by homerunhitter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're not really an accountant then, you're a bookkeeper.
2006-07-07 15:22:02 · answer #8 · answered by professionalfemale01 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get your CPA
2006-07-07 15:21:41 · answer #9 · answered by spooge_otter 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋