Base Pay

Categories: Company Management

You've gotten a job offer from Dilly Dally Drivers, Inc. The company promises to pay somewhere between fifty and seventy grand a year. When you dig deeper, you find that the offer isn't as appealing as it seems. Fifty-grand is your base pay, and seventy-grand is what you could make with tons of overtime and a bonus here and there. Bummer.

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