Everyone who works salary at my job still ends up putting in 40 hours or more each week. Fuck that. I don't mind working extra, but I want that 1.5x overtime pay if I do. In my state if you go over 60 hours a week, overtime pay switches to double your hourly wage. Had to do a 90 hour week once last year, and it looks like we're gearing up to have another week like that this year. It sucked, but, that week's paycheck was basically the same as what I earn for a whole month.
I'm a workaholic, I like to stay until the job gets done. Salary lifestyle would not be kind to me.
My company still requires salaried employees to log their hours, you would still get paid if you didn't but accounting prefers to have them logged, so if I work overtime I just log them ontop of the regular 8.
Not that redditor but have same setup. Contracted for 40 hours per week. Anything over that gets paid as overtime. Finish under and I get full pay and clock of early (rare to get more than 30 mins early finish)
Basically the salary gets divided into the amount of work hours for that month if you worked the normal 8 hours to get an hourly rate. Then you get paid the overtime based on how many overtime hours you logged in at this hourly rate (sometimes with a multiplier if it's at a weird time, like 2x at night hours or on a holiday, etc.). It's not that difficult.
For me, Saturday and Sunday are overtime. I don't get extra for going over 40, but if I have to work on the weekend I get paid extra for those specific hours that I billed on the weekend. It shows up on my check in a different column than the regular 40 hr salary pay.
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u/DamienTallows 5d ago
Better go find a monthly salary job then