I agree 100%. When on salary you are buying a piece of my time in exchange for an agreed upon amount of compensation. For an employer to make the former variable but not the latter is B.S.<p>Also, the whole more than 40 hour per week expectation is nonsense. I am independent now and can do the same (or more) amount of work in 30-40 hours a week now. In fact, I worked ~500 fewer hours my first full year of being independent. Did I make a little less money? Sure, because I don&#x27;t get paid time off anymore. And I also worked a lot less.