Synopsis:
I've been with my current company a couple years now working contract: $52-53 an hour, 40 hours a week. No overtime and no PTO for vacations, holidays or sick days. And of course, no health care, dental or 401k [I pay for the healthcare stuff, mostly just to avoid the tax penalties]. So basically i can pull upwards to 110k a year but realistically it'll always be somewhat less bc i'll obviously take days off throughout the course of a year.
Mind you i'm healthy, fit, no wife or kids, so all i do is stack up cash. Only debt i have is student loans of course
So my supervisor and I were talking and it was brought up that I was still contract. He said he could make a case to his higher ups for moving me over to salary, but asked if i'd prefer that because it'd mean a lower base pay for the added benefits. He didn't get into specifics bc this was all very informal but I figure it'd be around 80-90k, but with good to great company benefits.
I told him I wouldn't mind finally being able to take a vacation and shyt without losing money lol but now its got me thinking. My folks been told me to get on that salary+benefits train, and so have other people. Esp with the 401k. Obviously if it was the same $$$ amount it'd be a no brainer but I wanted to see if there were opposing thoughts to taking less or how much less?
I've been with my current company a couple years now working contract: $52-53 an hour, 40 hours a week. No overtime and no PTO for vacations, holidays or sick days. And of course, no health care, dental or 401k [I pay for the healthcare stuff, mostly just to avoid the tax penalties]. So basically i can pull upwards to 110k a year but realistically it'll always be somewhat less bc i'll obviously take days off throughout the course of a year.
Mind you i'm healthy, fit, no wife or kids, so all i do is stack up cash. Only debt i have is student loans of course
So my supervisor and I were talking and it was brought up that I was still contract. He said he could make a case to his higher ups for moving me over to salary, but asked if i'd prefer that because it'd mean a lower base pay for the added benefits. He didn't get into specifics bc this was all very informal but I figure it'd be around 80-90k, but with good to great company benefits.
I told him I wouldn't mind finally being able to take a vacation and shyt without losing money lol but now its got me thinking. My folks been told me to get on that salary+benefits train, and so have other people. Esp with the 401k. Obviously if it was the same $$$ amount it'd be a no brainer but I wanted to see if there were opposing thoughts to taking less or how much less?
