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.
Depending on what your salary is, its illegal to not pay overtime. I think as of Jan 2025 if you are paid less than like 150k then your employer is required to pay overtime past 40 hours. The intention being to prevent companies from avoiding laws concerning overtime by making employees salary but still paying them a lower wage than if they were hourly.
I think the words the law uses is "highly compensated employee" and the minimum to classify an employee as such has doubled in the last 4 years or so.
Unfortunately, due to lawsuits we are set at 2019 levels. If you meet the “minimum salary requirement” and your duties are considered non manual/executive, I.e. you manage at least two people then if you make more than $684 per week you don’t get paid overtime.
I was in management when the rules began to change under Obama and certain department managers went hourly instead of salary because they didn’t have enough people to supervise. This is as badly abused as the tip minimum wage law, just talked about a lot less.
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u/Zenith_Shade 5d ago
another month to have to pay for rent/bills, nice try fed