So I have to confess that I’m highly unsatisfied with my job lately. Since I started I have had at least one person trying to sabotage my efforts to be successful. Initially it was my direct boss, now it just seems like its the entire executive team.

They want to keep me because I’m extremely smart and on top of it, but punish me because there are things I can only do at night and choose to include those hours in my required 45 per week. I’ve gone from salary to hourly as a punishment, but the very reason they want to keep me may be the reason they put me back on salary.

When this happened, I knew that I would at least get overtime, or rather should, since anything over 40 hours a week is defined as overtime. With a little help and direction from my wonderful fiance, I found out that even salary people are entitled to a form of overtime. Hell, that means I have quite a bit of backpay coming then.

Here’s how it works, if you are hourly, then anything over 40 hours worked in a normal week is overtime, which is required to be paid as time and a half. Salary is a bit different, but it works something like this, you have your standard pay, you divide that across your agreed hours per week, then anything over 40, you take half your figured hourly rate and you will have your overtime pay.

Here’s the catch, there are limits to who gets overtime. If you make over $100,000 per year, you can’t get overtime. It is all straight time, whether you are being paid $50 an hour, or are salary.

If you want to read about it, here is the pdf that I originally read on.