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An hourly worker or hourly employee is an employee paid an hourly
An hourly worker or hourly employee is an employee paid an hourly wage
A wage is payment made by an employer to an employee for work done in a specific period of time. Some examples of wage payments include compensatory payments such as ''minimum wage'', '' prevailing wage'', and ''yearly bonuses,'' and remun ...
for their services, as opposed to a fixed salary
A salary is a form of periodic payment from an employer to an employee, which may be specified in an employment contract. It is contrasted with piece wages, where each job, hour or other unit is paid separately, rather than on a periodic basis.
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. Hourly workers may often be found in service and manufacturing occupations, but are common across a variety of fields.
Hourly employment is often associated but not synonymous with at-will employment. As of September 2017, the minimum wage in the United States
In the United States, the minimum wage is set by U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws. The first federal minimum wage was instituted in the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roo ...
for hourly workers is $7.25 per hour, or $2.13 per hour for a tipped employee. As a tipped employee, wages plus tips must equal the standard minimum wage or the employer is required to provide the difference.
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