I was just curious if when salaried you have to work as many hrs as they want to give you? Or are there any laws saying they need to pay you overtime after a certain amount of hrs?

I was just curious if when salaried you have to work as many hrs as they want to give you? Or are there any laws saying they need to pay you overtime after a certain amount of hrs?


Contact your local Wage and Hour office for the definitive answer - I believe part of it depends on whether you are management.

Generally, if you are salaried you don't get overtime pay. That's why you are classified as "exempt"... you are exempt from the laws covering overtime pay. I have known salaried bosses of mine who worked hours that were absolutely insane! The flip side, of course, is that salaried managers generally make bonuses, which are generally tied to their performance, which non-exempt employees don't.

Now... do you have to work as many hours as they want to give you? Once again, generally no. The idea behind being salaried is that you work as long as you need to in order to get the work done. In reality, that means at least 40 hours a week, sometimes more. So generally you are setting your own hours. I'm not used to salaried personnel having a "work schedule" at all. The general assumption is that the managers will be there when the people that they supervise are, which does put some structure in place, but they've never clocked in or out at places that I have worked.