I am a salaried employee for a non profit organization. I am a supervisor. I routinely work overtime and am on 24/7 call. I asked my employer about being compensated for all the overtime I work and was told that the contract I signed states that I am paid for 40 hours a week or how ever long it takes me to do my job. Is this legal?:rolleyes:

Afraid its legal. You are salaried not hourly and salaried people almost never get overtime. Sorry

Yes it is legal. The feds show two types of employees, exempt and non-exempt. Most managerial people are considered exempt (from overtime).

What you can try to do is negotiate some comp time.

Yes, welcome to management, mangers don't get paid any overtime, if you work 60 or 90 hours it don't matter you are paid one rate of pay no matter how many hours you work,

So the next time you see a manager remember if they have to come in on their day off to cover for someone that did not show up, understand why they are mad.

As noted if you work extreme hours out of normal, then you can see about getting some other time off for working those longer hours

And of course you need to manage your time where you are not working as many exgtra hours if possible