Please chime in! Trying to figure out if I’m overreacting or if this is a red flag and I should walk.
Job posts where I’m located require pay/salary range and benefits to be listed. I applied to a job that had a salary range. I have the initial interview and we discuss the compensation and I’m told that the position is actually not salary, but hourly. I ask what the hourly rate is, and she didn’t even know and had to do back of napkin math to figure it out.
It was explained to me that it was hourly because it’s eligible for overtime. I explained that I’ve been salary since 2017 and I’ve always been non-exempt (overtime eligible) and she didn’t seem to understand what that meant. Why not just list the hourly rate in the job post then? I wouldn’t have applied had I known.
Do you feel like the compensation structure listed as salary when it’s actually hourly is deceptive? Would you accept and move forward with the interview process or move on? I haven’t been hourly in almost a decade and I don’t think I could go back to the life of working hourly vs tasks completed under a salary with an hourly rate for OT. Am I being overly picky?