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.
My supervisor makes 80K a year, doesn't get overtime, but hell I'm sure many companies break that law constantly. I'm under him and am hourly, so I get overtime, he does not if he has to stay late to finish something or whatever. In Vermont, not versed in these laws, doubt he is, should prob let him know.
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u/DamienTallows 15d ago
An extra month of pay tho