Kelly AlhooiePelviBiz, Pelvibiz · Healthcare Business Strategy Assistant

Every Hour at Your Job Costs You $150

12 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief motivational monologue, Kelly Alhooie illustrates the concept of opportunity cost by comparing a $50‑per‑hour salaried job to a personal business that could charge $100‑$200 per hour. She argues that each hour spent at the lower‑paying job represents a $150 loss in potential earnings. Extending this to a scenario where an individual reduces their employment hours to 20 per week, she calculates a missed income of roughly $3,000 per week, emphasizing the financial impact of staying in a lower‑paid position.

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Oh, let's just say you make $50 an hour at current job. Everyone with me? So let's say you charge $100, $200 in your personal business. Your job, your other job pays you $50. Okay. That means every hour you stay at your current job, you are losing $150 an hour. Crazy. Crazy. So here's what this equals. I was doing the math on this this morning. I was like, oh my God, this is nuts. Nuts. So $150 an hour. Okay. And let's say that you're losing and let's say you work 20 hours a week because maybe you reduce your hours. That means that you are— okay, I don't know what kind of math this thing is doing. It's already calculating this thing for me somehow. Okay. That means you are missing out on $3,000 a week. Missing out on— isn't that crazy?