TIME AND A HALF、DOUBLE TIMEの意味、5割増賃金、倍額賃金

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2010.05.19

What could be better than getting twice the pay for doing exactly the same work?!

Today's Lesson
TIME AND A HALF / DOUBLE TIME   5割増賃金/倍額賃金

Explanation

  • To get time and a half for work is to earn 150% of (= one and a half times) your normal wage.

    To get double time is to earn 200% of (= double) your normal wage.
  • 仕事について get time and a half と言うと、通常の賃金の150%(1.5倍)を支払われる、という意味になります。

    get double time と言うと、通常の賃金の200%(2倍)を支払われる、という意味になります。

TIME AND A HALF / DOUBLE TIME

examples

  1. The job pays time and a half for overtime.
  2. Workers on the night shift earn time and a half.
  3. (hospital nurse)
    None of us like having to work on Christmas Eve, but at least they pay us double time.
  4. The union says that workers should get double time for such hazardous work.

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