Users may feel as though they are paying an hourly rate for their electricity.
But what happens if the hourly rate for the caregiver goes up by 50%?
Factory workers likewise are often paid for how many RVs they turn out, not at some hourly rate.
In the past Toyota paid its U.S. factory workers close to the same hourly rate as domestic automakers.
Like an architect, Fuller bills out his time, and that of his 105 people, at an hourly rate.
Mr. Mossberg's first accountant in Atlanta now spends more time, at a higher hourly rate, preparing TLM's tax returns.
He signed up with Odesk, a Menlo Park, Calif. company that allows contractors to program computers for an hourly rate online.
Why do we need to attach an hourly rate to our daily activities to give validation to what it is that we do?
Paying the adviser a fee (either at an hourly rate or through a fee for the whole job) is known as 'fees only' advice.
With reserved instances, companies pay a reservation fee for an instance up front and a much lower hourly rate for use of that instance.
The traditional legal billing model is based on the hourly rate.
The person requesting assistance - or, more usually, the local ambulance service - can be billed at an hourly rate for each fire engine mobilised.
If governments can't rely on their own in-house counsel, they can do what any sensible business would do -- hire outsiders at a fixed hourly rate.
If Insurance companies acted more in the interests of their policyholders, and paid a fair hourly rate to repairers, credit hire companies may not even exist.
But fee-only financial planning includes other methods of charging clients such as a flat retainer, an hourly rate or a charge specific to the task at hand.
If you want advice delivered in person, consider a fee-only planner, meaning one who charges either an hourly rate or a flat rate, as opposed to one who lives off sales commissions.
Either way it made so much more sense to pay them for their expertise then do it myself when my hourly rate and what I valued my time at was so much higher.
Linton organized a sting operation earlier this year by hiring an Uber vehicle and then fining the driver for multiple violations, including not disclosing an hourly rate before the ride starts as the law requires.
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Many of the contract attorneys worked for Hudson Legal, an outsourcing firm that provides workspace, pay and benefits to lawyers and charges firms like Kirby McInerney a slight premium over the hourly rate to cover overhead.
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Multiply the two hours saved a day by the average hourly rate of the 120 employees then by the 247 days (the average US employees work) and you will find the results are very large dollars and cents.
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Guests will usually be asked to leave before 6 pm or 7 pm so the rooms can be readied for overnight visitors, and the hotel will not normally offer an hourly rate, just a fixed price for the day.
All hourly employees who work on a national holiday, including Thanksgiving, receive pay equal to time and a half their hourly pay rate, she said.
There I found the U.S. median hourly wage rate for electrical and electronic equipment assemblers, which pretty accurately describes the work done by all those Foxconn workers assembling iPads.
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He has to make estimates, because not all the official numbers are out, but his reasoning squares with French data showing hourly output rising at an annual rate of 3% .
Since the end of 2008 business-sector productivity has grown at an impressive annualised rate of 4.2% while hourly compensation has crept ahead by just 2.1%.
Permanent salaries increased at the fastest rate in Aberdeen, while the strongest rise in temp hourly pay was posted in Glasgow.
Permanent salaries rose at the fastest rate in Aberdeen, while the strongest rise in temp hourly pay was posted in Glasgow.
The government can promise a higher wage rate, but if a worker loses her job, her income (hourly wage x hours worked) will be zero.
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