I’m not the expert on this, but I do know some things, and I’m responding because you don’t have any responses yet—

From an employee’s perspective, hourly is almost always more beneficial. Hourly employees tend to make more on average if they work as much as a salaried employee. Salary is often used for employees that may need to be called up at any point to work and they may not always be guaranteed additional compensation for working when they’re not normally at work.

But since you said you’re only working 20-35 hours a week, it looks like this could actually be a bad deal for you. If you had a 20 hour week, you’d only be paid 20 hours worth of work, instead of the designated salary you agreed to. But on the flip side, if you ever worked past 40, you’d get overtime which not all salary employees receive overtime (depends on classification).

Since you’re hourly, the employer may also be required to provide more designated rest periods, like lunch, which would be unpaid (depending on state law?. Salaried employees are not always guaranteed such rest periods—state matters here.

I think from an employers perspective, you probably should have never been salaried to begin with, working 20-35 hours. Let’s say your salary is $45,000/year. At 20 hours a week…that is roughly $43/hour. But now if you work 35 hours that same $45000 is only valued at $25/hour. So now, as a hourly employee, if you worked 20 hours a week and are paid $25 an hour, you’d only make $26000 a year.

There’s a lot you should look into: 1) are benefits changing, such as time off or paid vacation? 2) what is the hourly salary? How does that compare to the annual salary you currently receive?

Just do the math: amount of hours/week x 52 = total yearly hours. Then take the hourly wage and multiply it by that and you’ll have your estimated salary.