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hourly

hourly

57 1.0
Happening every hour or paid for each hour of work
  • adjective
  • /ˈaʊərli/
translation icon : por hora
  • Well then, for the record, beyond my hourly rate, I take 5% of any deal we close.
  • hourly rate
  • hourly wage
  • hourly price

And so I hired a realtor that I paid an hourly wage to sell my houses.

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Examples

  • Most of all, I feel good with the easy work, quick turnaround, and decent hourly pay.

    Academic text (2008)
  • In addition, many working parents out there are employed in hourly wage jobs.

  • If you pay them an hourly rate that they that they set, you know, it changes how they practice medicine.

  • You can charge hourly, or you can charge a daily rate.

  • Really, and do you charge a steep, hourly rate?

  • American workers have seen a significant decline in their real hourly earnings since 1973.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Their average hourly pay outperforms the white British mainstream.

  • Under the new structure, most new hires will make the lowest possible hourly wage for that store.

  • But my first actual like legit job like hourly wage was for the gap.

  • I earn an hourly wage for my work at the coffee shop.

Compounds

1 3.6

Happens every thirty minutes

How Often

constantly
740 1.0
hourly
57 1.0
daily
1.0
occasionally
438 2.0
rarely
539 1.0

Surface Forms

hourly positive

Morphology

hourly = hour (transparent) = hour + ly

Standard adjectival formation from the noun 'hour' giving the meaning 'occurring every hour' or 'per hour'.

Etymology

Hourly is built from hour and the ending -ly, so it literally means 'every hour' or 'by the hour'. So an hourly rate is a price for each hour and an hourly weather report happens each hour.