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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by rat9988 on Thursday July 14, 2022 @02:51AM (#32092814)
It is usually accepted per year when not specified. For example when you talk about GDP, it is yearly. Salary? Yearly usually yearly unless specified. Factory production? Yearly.

And no, you cannot use watts, unless you invent a new unit, watts of capacity?

The units used are correct.

Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by gambiting on Thursday July 14, 2022 @03:02AM (#32092879)
>>Salary? Yearly usually yearly unless specified.

That's a very uniquely English thing. Where I'm from(Poland) you always list the salary per month and that's how people talk about it. I've never seen anyone refer to a salary on an annual basis.

Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by Tade0 on Thursday July 14, 2022 @08:06AM (#32094829)
> Where I'm from(Poland) you always list the salary per month and that's how people talk about it.

Depends on the type of contract. I'm also from Poland and unit I use most often is the daily rate because it's the only reliable way for a contractor to calculate earnings.

Job listings indeed still use monthly, but their understanding of a month is usually "20 workdays", which is obviously off by at least 10%.

Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by jaclaz on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:13AM (#32096337)
Well, if you are a contractor you don't have a salary, strictly speaking.
Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by Tade0 on Friday July 15, 2022 @04:35AM (#32106069)
Over 80% senior job listings are formally contracts around here. It's a popular method of tax optimisation.
Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by WesolyKubeczek on Thursday July 14, 2022 @06:19AM (#32094103)
You can thank our people’s republic past for that. In the whole bloc and the USSR, monthly has been the standard. It just carried over.

(Troubled post-socialism past and, to some extent, present, in which the vast majority is living paycheck to paycheck with little to no ability to save up, is sure contributing to this mode of thinking.)

Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by jaclaz on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:15AM (#32096355)
Rest assured that in many other EU countries that were never a "people's republic" salary is usually talked about on a "per month" basis.
Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by frant-hartm on Thursday July 14, 2022 @04:59AM (#32093666)
It's US thing, not English. English would be weekly :-).
Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by gambiting on Thursday July 14, 2022 @05:37AM (#32093869)
I live in UK currently and everyone says their salary per annum :-)
Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by throwawayben on Thursday July 14, 2022 @05:11AM (#32093735)
nobody I know (here in England) would say their salary is their weekly earnings. Salary is always per year
Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by ben_w on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:30AM (#32094534)
When I did a summer holiday job during my A-levels, people talked about hourly rates and got paid weekly; when I was at Aberystwyth at the end of my degree, I remember some local employment scheme that listed pay per week; I think the job contracts after I graduated and before I moved country were usually listing annual pay, but I can't remember. Now I'm in Berlin, discussion is mixed between monthly and annually.
Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by throwawayben on Thursday July 14, 2022 @08:19AM (#32094987)
yeah for temporary/part time work you'll often have hourly rates with weekly pay, but that wouldn't normally be called a salary
Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by numpad0 on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:10AM (#32094404)
Sounds like it’s English thing, that monthly- and yearly-income shares the word ;)
Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by Sniffnoy on Thursday July 14, 2022 @03:01AM (#32092876)
It's energy over time, that makes power. 240 GWh / 1 Year = 27,379,093 W.
Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by rat9988 on Thursday July 14, 2022 @08:57AM (#32095471)
No it's not energy over time. GWh of capacity is not energy.
Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by Sniffnoy on Thursday July 14, 2022 @02:14PM (#32099567)
It has dimensions of energy, which is what's being discussed. Things do not need to be measuring the same thing to have the same dimensions.