{"id":45,"date":"2026-10-11T12:32:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-jobboard\/how-to-read-the-pay-line-on-a-job-ad\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:46:31","slug":"how-to-read-the-pay-line-on-a-job-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-jobboard\/how-to-read-the-pay-line-on-a-job-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read the pay line on a job ad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every ad on the board shows the pay, but not always in the same way (sample).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An hourly rate is what you earn for each hour worked, before tax. A yearly figure is for a full-time week; &#8220;pro rata&#8221; means you get the share for the hours you do, so a $31,000 job at three days a week pays about $18,600.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If an ad gives a range, the bottom of it is usually where new starters begin. Ask what moves you up the range: it is a fair question, and the job desk can help you word it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hourly, yearly, pro rata: what the numbers on an ad mean for your pay packet (sample).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-jobboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}