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By Mandruss

Pay tables

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Salaried editors
USD GBP EUR CAD AUD JPY CNY
Monthly $0.00 £0.00 €0.00 $0.00 $0.00 ¥0.00 ¥0.00
Christmas bonus $0.00 £0.00 €0.00 $0.00 $0.00 ¥0.00 ¥0.00
Hourly editors
USD GBP EUR CAD AUD JPY CNY
Regular $0.00 £0.00 €0.00 $0.00 $0.00 ¥0.00 ¥0.00
Overtime
Regular x 1.6
Major holidays
Regular x 2

Pay rates are the same for administrators and regular editors.

Pay slip

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A monochrome photo from 1940. A woman is inserting a card in a time clock machine while a queue of women, about eight in frame, await their turns behind her. The woman's other hand is on the lever that causes the machine to stamp the current time of day on the card. The women are dressed for factory work, wearing smocks and hair coverings. The machine's clock reads 12:58.
English Wikipedia hourly editors are "clocking out" for their lunch break, which is unpaid. Along with "clocking in", clocking out provides the raw data for the payroll department to create pay slips. This woman is a Wikipedia administrator.
A monochrome photo from 1940. The subjects, all men, are wearing British Navy uniforms, and the setting appears to be a room below deck on a ship. Three men are seated at a long table. A group of men, about fourteen in frame, are standing on the other side of the table. One of the seated men is handing something to one of the standing men. The other standing men are awaiting their turns.
English Wikipedia payday for hourly editors in Britain. The payroll clerk is handing the editor his net pay and pay slip.
ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA PAY SLIP
United States – Hourly
Account John Diligent
Pay date 10 Sep 2025
Period start 31 Aug 2025
Period end 6 Sep 2025
Regular hours 14.0 0.00
Overtime hours 0.0 0.00
Major holidays hours 5.5 0.00
Gross pay 0.00
FIT 0.00
FICA 0.00
Cafeteria 0.00
Company store 0.00
Wikimedia donation 0.00
Net pay $0.00
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