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Board Economics
Re: How popular is salary lottery in your workspace?
by
Uruhara
on 05/07/2025, 02:53:41 UTC
In my region, salary lotteries are very popular in many workplaces. I don't know what's the exact English term for his but we call it that name. The purpose of salary lottery is that 5-6 employees collect together and they play lottery. The first winner gets the salary of every worker, in the next months the second winner gets everyone's salary and that's it. There isn't a random winner, everyone gets their salary back but the fate of who is the first person to receive the salary is decided via a simple coin flip.

For example, imagine that there are 6 people and salary of each person is $1000. They determine via coin flip who is the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th. First gets $6000 in the end of the month, in the next month, the second gets $6000 and in 6th month, the 6th person gets $6000. You may ask me how do they live for 6 months without a salary? Family members take care of them. Too many people work for fun because sitting at home is boring for them but they don't have enough money to have fun too.
Ah, I understand this. Because here there are also methods or things like this. We call it ARISAN. It's just that we don't use all of our salary. But we only use about 20% to 50% of our salary. So we can still use the remaining salary to meet our needs every month.

And sometimes this method not only occurs in the workplace by employees but also in various other things. And usually involves more than 10 people. Sometimes in large quantities. Which makes the money collected quite large too.

And in the method of determining who goes first, it is determined by everyone writing their names on a small piece of paper. And rolled it up. And everything was collected and put in a box. And from this box every month one piece of paper will be taken at random. And the name that comes out will get money for that month. I've done that too.
But only once or twice. And after that I didn't like doing it anymore. because I think when we win the earliest. Then it will be like we have installments that have to be paid every month.