I think this is mostly a US thing. Why use yearly salary? You’re not paid once a year, are you? Most likely once a month. Referencing monthly salary makes much more sense.

“I’m making 50k”. Great, now I have to guess - dollars? Monthly? Yearly? If yearly then what’s the monthly paycheck? Net? Gross?

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      That was my thought too. In Tech we do the same because of total compensation. Stock (options), bonuses etc. have a yearly cadence.

      Also some places have a 13th salary, so yearly makes sense there too.

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      Generally we don’t include bonuses in annual salaries in the US because a bonus is not always guaranteed and many fields won’t have a bonus.