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  2. How Many Work Hours Are in a Year? - AOL

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    There are 52 weeks in a year and 40 work hours in a week, which comes out to 2,080 working hours before any time off is considered. In Job A, Joe will get 88 hours of paid holiday time and 40 ...

  3. OpenThesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  5. Salary - Wikipedia

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    A general rule for comparing periodic salaries to hourly wages is based on a standard 40-hour work week with 50 weeks per year (minus two weeks for vacation). (Example: $40,000/year periodic salary divided by 50 weeks equals $800/week. Divide $800/week by 40 standard hours equals $20/hour).

  6. Compensation and benefits - Wikipedia

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    Base Salary or Guaranteed Pay – a fixed monetary reward paid by an employer to an employee. This refers to the regular amount of money that an employee receives consistently. The basic salary, often referred to as the base or fixed salary, is the set amount that an employee receives for their standard work.

  7. Experience modifier - Wikipedia

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    The experience rating approach uses an individual's or group’s historic data as a proxy for future risk, and insurers adjust and set insurance premiums and plans accordingly. [1] Each year, a newer year's data is added to the three year window of experience used in the calculation, and the oldest year from the prior calculation is dropped off.

  8. Prevailing wage - Wikipedia

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    Federal rates are calculated based on regulations established by the US Department of Labor.According to Code of Federal Regulations, "The prevailing wage shall be the wage paid to the majority (more than 50 percent) of the laborers or mechanics in the classification on similar projects in the area during the period in question.

  9. Reservation wage - Wikipedia

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    This wage is a theoretical representation of the hourly rate at which an individual values their own leisure time. [2] A job offer involving the same type of work and the same working conditions, but at a lower wage rate, would be rejected by the worker. In this case, based on the reservation wage theory, the individual would be better off not ...