Salaried employees, how many hours do you work in a week?

[cantdrv55]

Do you feel you are underpaid?

I thought maybe 50 hours for me but wifey says more like 60 - 65 hours. She counts the times I'm on my Blackberry or on my computer (not Pelican surfing). She might be right. That's a curse of having a home office. I'm not underpaid though for the level of physical and mental exertion I put into my job, not that I'm slacking.

[cantdrv55]

Nice work if you can get it.

[flatbutt]

never less than 45

[GH85Carrera]

I come in 20 to 25 minutes early every day.

[MisterB]

43 - 45

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Supposed to do 37.5, most weeks it's really more like 40-45 - I've done extended stints of 60+ at past jobs and it just ain't worth it.

[dw1]

From roughly 7:15 am to roughly 6 pm (lately more like 6:30) M-F, with no real break for lunch.

Commuting: roughly 30 minutes each way

Then there's travel: late this week I'm be doing some off-site testing and be back to the plant to drop off test equipment probably around midnight on Friday.

Add to my working hours lots of night & weekend time spent at home in front of the computer doing test data reduction, CAD design or other work.

Yes, it's LOTS of hours, but these days it seems to be the price one has to pay to keep one's job.

Btw, we've been on a pay freeze now going into its 3rd year.

I bring home a very good paycheck, and they thrown a bonus or two my way. I don't feel so much underpaid as under-appreciated.

I worked hard to get some critical data calculations finished, and e-mailed them out on a Sunday evening, but the only comment I got from a senior staff member was a complaint about the e-mail distribution list.

Sorry for the rant. You caught me at a bad time. My very well-respected, highly experienced, and highly technically competent boss was forced out due largely (I think) to office politics. His last day was this past Friday.

This just shows that no matter how much you work or how competent you are, one is always "on the bubble". It is difficult to work like this, but it seems to be the new standard for US businesses.

Oh, and I haven't taken any vacation time for the last 4 years

[sammyg2]

About 25 hours a week actually at work, average another 15 or 20 from home.
No, not underpaid.

[masraum]

I don't think I'm underpaid. Lately I've been working 40-45 hrs a week. I'm perfectly happy with that range.

Years ago I worked in a retail auto posts store in FL that is very similar to autozone. It was the early 90s. I was getting paid $21k plus bonuses to be a store manager. I made about $26k total over the year. Our required schedule was 55 hours a week, but when I was promoted to the managers position, I was told that I would ned to work at least 60 hours or more to get the job done. I did usually work 60 - 70 hours a week and have worked far more. I didn't stay at that job long.

[Scott R]

Maybe 30, everything I do is IT finance for our overseas operations. Due to the time shift I only meet with people for a few hours in the morning. When I 'm working on domestic it's probably 27 to 30. I have my job down to a science anymore.

[cantdrv55]

Are you guys counting all the time you're on the phone and typing into your Blackberry? I also count my travel time to/from customer accounts. ****, maybe I am underpaid.

[Tishabet]

Counting only time actually in my office (or on site at a client's office) I average a tad over 50.

[foxpaws]

about 45-50 hours a week - unless I am at a show-show time adds lots - dinners with clients - lunches with clients - drinking with clients - parties with clients.

[Hugh R]

Typically 40, when I travel for my shows I try and do it on workdays, but not always. I don't feel that I am being taken advantage of, and I don't think I take advantage of the company. There is a lot of filming done in the area where I live, and I take advantage of it and get home an hour early, I'll plan it that way. My day can start at 5 AM (usually 8) and has been known to end at 6AM the next day. Boss is real good about comp time.

[Z-man]

Originally Posted by MisterB

43 - 45

+1. (Or more)

-Z-man.

[UconnTim97]

37.5, but I get paid ot after 8 hours a day. Works for me.

[Esel Mann]

Back when I worked salaried, 60 hours was the minimum, average ranged 60 - 80 hours. Those hours were at the office as in not traveling. Lunch was always a working lunch. Naturally with the hours, working weekends was not unfamiliar. Vacation was 2 weeks. Whether one was green lighted to take it was an entirely different story.

Throughout that I had the pleasure of going through 2 instances where pay was frozen, then the matching 401k which was eliminated, and oh when a bonus was handed out I could afford to take the family to McDs so to speak. All the while
the uppers collected nice bonuses, had nice vacations, nice salaries, and did not work the hours. So much for taking care of those who make things happen.

So after some time, I returned to contracting. I should have never left contracting. I simply chock up the salaried thing as a life experience.

Ok, I need to end this now as I am getting pissed just thinking about it and all the lazy ****z I had to deal with.

[Icemaster]

Depends on the week and what's going on. If we're pushing towards implementation or startup on a large project, it'll run up to 60. If we're done and coming down from it, might be 25-30. All averages out overall to around 45.

I'm at market rate for the field, I don't feel underpaid.

[fxeditor]

This is the first (and last) salary job I will ever take. I have been averaging 50 hours a week but for the last month I have been putting in 80 to 100 hours getting Pirates of the Caribbean finished! I have never felt so much like a "Human Resource" (read slave) before in my professional career. In fact I am writing this now from my edit bay, waiting for more changes to the film to come in and I am on my 105th hour.

Michael

[gprsh924]

60-70

First job out of college...gotta put in the hours to move up