Pay your employees in Bitcoin

[jacktheking]

If I'm not wrong a country in Europe dont allow employers to pay employees in Bitcoin. Should be Sweden or Finland. Not sure. It is somewhat a old news. Anyway, I do hope that more and more companies will be paying workers with Bitcoin.

[Bit_Happy]

The only problem with this is price fluctuation but that will go down in time.

Some working people will enjoy making money off of price fluctuations as they day-trade with part of their paycheck, and others can instantly convert to the "safety" of paper money. Either way, "price fluctuations" are an opportunity, not a problem.

[Kprawn]

The thing is your employer pay huge banking fees, to transfer money to you, then you pay huge fees to use that money. {ATM withdrawals / Credit & Debit card fees etc etc.}

This is not the same for all countries, but it's applicable to most. In the countries with high banking fees this would be ideal. 

It is a nice option for people with a trade, eg. Plumbers / Electricians etc.. You offer the option to be paid in Bitcoin as a added payment method. This will open up a extra payment method and it would prevent situations where people run away after chargebacks and bouncing cheques. 

So it will work for some and not for others.   

[Q7]

Especially when you compare that against paypal where you have the receiving fee, then later the exchange rate fee to convert back to the local currency and don't forget the withdrawal fee. By the time, that is done, you will be left with almost nothing. I just wonder why a lot of people haven't really realize the potential. 

[hasmukhh]

HAHA paying my employees in bitcoins is not such a good idea for me since I have to deal with many transactions per day.

[Benjig]

HAHA paying my employees in bitcoins is not such a good idea for me since I have to deal with many transactions per day.

Then hire employes for manage your employes payments, the course of mankind in this world is based on the decisions and thoughts of goverment and CEOs, if we are lazy or too greedy for keep the Job of pumping on any way the Bitcoin, the price will still going down and so the bad press.

[Elwar]

The price fluctuations are not that bad. If you are living paycheck to paycheck you may want to re-think your spending habits. If you are able to wait between the time you are paid until either A: the price goes up or B: you get paid again, then you will always be spending at or above the amount of money you earned on pay day. Do this long enough and you will eventually double one of your paychecks.

For me it is ideal because I am paid in dollars but live in Europe. Selling bitcoins via localbitcoins I actually make a 10% profit on every euro that I convert. By doing this I am basically getting at least a 10% raise plus the amount of extra value I get by only spending when the price is higher or equal to the amount of my paycheck (the price does go up between paychecks at times as well).

And if all you do is get paid in bitcoin and don't try to time it by spending when the price is high you are essentially dollar cost averaging, so over time your pay averages out.

[btc-facebook]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/21/why-it-might-make-sense-to-pay-your-employees-in-bitcoin-video/

If your company regularly pays wages to international workers, then incorporating Bitcoin into the payroll process could be a major cost saver.

If only the bitcoin price keep stable, I think many company will use bitcoin to play their employess. Beside efficient also bitcoin has low fee for transaction. Everyone like that !

[Mt. Gox]

Isn't BitWage just BitPay in reverse? With BitPay, you have person A who wants to receive fiat and person B who wants to give BTC and the exchange is able to happen because BitPay instantly converts the BTC to fiat. With BitWage, you have person A who wants to receive BTC and person B who wants to give fiat so the exchange is able to happen because BitWage instantly converts the fiat to BTC.

At least that's how I think it works?

[Elwar]

Isn't BitWage just BitPay in reverse? With BitPay, you have person A who wants to receive fiat and person B who wants to give BTC and the exchange is able to happen because BitPay instantly converts the BTC to fiat. With BitWage, you have person A who wants to receive BTC and person B who wants to give fiat so the exchange is able to happen because BitWage instantly converts the fiat to BTC.

At least that's how I think it works?

Yep, that's how it works. Bitwage gave me a direct deposit number to give my company. My company deposits to that account and BitWage immediately converts it to bitcoins and sends it to my public key.

[Kakmakr]

For me it is ideal because I am paid in dollars but live in Europe. Selling bitcoins via localbitcoins I actually make a 10% profit on every euro that I convert. By doing this I am basically getting at least a 10% raise plus the amount of extra value I get by only spending when the price is higher or equal to the amount of my paycheck (the price does go up between paychecks at times as well).

And if all you do is get paid in bitcoin and don't try to time it by spending when the price is high you are essentially dollar cost averaging, so over time your pay averages out.

Damn, excellent idea. How do you declare the 10% profit for tax purposes? <Capital Gain?>
After reading this, I am seriously thinking of asking for a percentage of my salary to be paid in Bitcoin.
I buy small amounts every month anyway, so I might ask them to buy it for me, and I save on the extra charges/profit people add to the price on Localbitcoins.

Another way to think about this is:
If a employer buy a huge amount of Bitcoins when the price is low, and they pay it to their employees when the price is higher, they could reduce their salary portion of the business. <They also benefit from a price increase>
 

[jdebunt]

I really like the service Bitwage is offering, and it is positive to see these kind of services gaining mainstream media attention.

[Elwar]

For me it is ideal because I am paid in dollars but live in Europe. Selling bitcoins via localbitcoins I actually make a 10% profit on every euro that I convert. By doing this I am basically getting at least a 10% raise plus the amount of extra value I get by only spending when the price is higher or equal to the amount of my paycheck (the price does go up between paychecks at times as well).

And if all you do is get paid in bitcoin and don't try to time it by spending when the price is high you are essentially dollar cost averaging, so over time your pay averages out.

Damn, excellent idea. How do you declare the 10% profit for tax purposes? <Capital Gain?>
After reading this, I am seriously thinking of asking for a percentage of my salary to be paid in Bitcoin.
I buy small amounts every month anyway, so I might ask them to buy it for me, and I save on the extra charges/profit people add to the price on Localbitcoins.

Another way to think about this is:
If a employer buy a huge amount of Bitcoins when the price is low, and they pay it to their employees when the price is higher, they could reduce their salary portion of the business. <They also benefit from a price increase>

You don't even need to ask your employer. Just sign up on BitWage and your employer won't even know.

If you can split your direct deposit between two bank accounts you can set the percentage yourself.

[neutraLTC]

I really like the service Bitwage is offering, and it is positive to see these kind of services gaining mainstream media attention.

I agree with you JD, I really like bitwage and the way they are targeting the mainstream.

[BitcoinNewbie15]

Thanks for sharing the article, it does make a lot of sense to pay your employees in Bitcoin. In my personal opinion, i think that receiving your wage in Bitcoin would be nice. However, I think that it should be optional of course, Bitcoin's volatility could be a problem for some people, but Bitcoin has been fairly stable recently.

[TrianglePythagoras]

The upside is, if the price rise by 50% your employees will be VERY happy. 

What happens when it's the other way around?

[mearylll]

If I'm not wrong a country in Europe dont allow employers to pay employees in Bitcoin. Should be Sweden or Finland. Not sure. It is somewhat a old news. Anyway, I do hope that more and more companies will be paying workers with Bitcoin.

Yes if more and more companies starts paying their employees their salaries in bitcoins the more and more people would start knowing what bitcoin is and start adopting it and that would be the best for the bitcoin users who wants that acceptance should go high.