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The dollar sign belongs before the number.
Presumably someone from a non-english speaking country made this, considering the dots used as digit grouping separators.
Having the $ at the end would be nice though. It's nice having your units in a single fraction instead of at different sides of the number. It could then be consistent with how we write all our other units.
We don't write m 1000/s, for example. We write 1000 m/s. We even say it this way already "4 million dollars per hour".
4,000,000 $/h makes way more sense than $4,000,000/h to be honest.
Psychopathic USians saying "dollars fifty", while the rest of the world says "fifty dollars".
eh, same dif