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Job A.
pay: 1 dollar per hour more then Job B
schedule: 6 AM-2:30 PM M-F
health and vacation accrual after 90 days, 401k after first year.
outside work environment
Job B
pay: 1 per hour less then Job A
schedule: 12:00 AM-8:30 AM M-F
health and vacation accrual immediately, 401k immediate.
mix of inside/outside work environment.
I would skip both options and go for job C that pays $2/hr more with all the benefits from Job B and hours of 8-5
Really? How about job C, CEO 500k per year. The point of the question is obviously to decide between the two options and nothing else is available at the time.
B because it has inside/outside work. Would rather not work outside 100% which Job A requires.
With job B, when you are outside for a portion of your shift, it's dark outside, so you don't have to worry about the sun beating down on you giving you sunburn and increasing your risk of skin cancer.
Since Job B is night shift, this frees you up to search for another job during the day
Based just on this information, I'd go with job A due to higher pay and closer to normal work hours. But I strongly feel that you should enjoy your job... if you would really be happier at one over the other, that might be the best way to go.
Most people aren't going to be able to work the graveyard hours on B. I'm sort of the opposite and don't think I could get up for a 6 am job. So I would pick B, but it really depends on the person and what hours they're comfortable with. I would think that's the deciding factor over a dollar difference in wage.
The pay difference also depends on the base wage. So if one job is paying $50/hour and the other is paying $51/hour, that's only a 2% difference. But if the jobs are $8 versus $7, that's over a 10% difference and becomes a more important factor.
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