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I am interested in a job, but they don't have the hourly rate up, it says Salaried: 2,366.00 a month. It's obviously salaried but I heard from my Aunt that salaried jobs will make you work over 40 hours a week, and they can make you work extra hours and not pay you, cause your job is "salaried" This is according to my aunt and my cousin, but I want to find out from other people if that's true? Cause wouldn't it be illegal to make someone work extra hours and not get paid for it? Is salary jobs worth it? What is the difference in salary jobs? Thank you so much!
Your aunt and cousin are correct. Unfortunately, it is not illegal. If you are exempt you aren't eligible for overtime pay, if you are non-exempt you can be paid overtime, time and a half.
Some places work 40-45 hours/week. If there is career advancement opportunity, a salaried employee can make more than an hourly employee with 20-30 hours overtime. The entry level salaried positions will make less than hourly employee, but you can pass it up after 2 years exp.
My current salaried position is triple my old hourly job's pay.
Salaried positions are exempt from overtime. They are called salaried positions and not hourly positions because you are paid for however long you need to work--not how many hours you are at work. My ex-wife was salaried retail and she worked long hours, was called in on her days off regularly, etc. We decided she should just quit because her salary divided by her hours worked equaled crappy pay per hour. I am salaried and I am also on call 24/7 every other week. To help take the sting out, I get a company car the weeks I am on call. The most I have worked as a salaried employee I think is in the 70-80 hours a week mark, but it is generally 40. If I am working long hours my boss will let me slide in an extra day off here and there to make up for all of the "unpaid overtime." Where I work, a salaried position is most likely to have a significant amount of weekend and holidays off. A salaried position can be a good gig or it can be a screw job.
I am interested in a job, but they don't have the hourly rate up, it says Salaried: 2,366.00 a month.
That's less then $15 an hour, (based on a 40 hour work week) pretty crappy pay unless your entry level. My last two jobs were salary, and while yes technically can make you work more than 40 hours a week, they generally didn't do that at either company. On my last job, they did pay overtime, but it was straight time, no time and a half pay.
You need to take a good look at the job and see what they expect out of you, $2,366 is $14.78 a hour, if they expect you to 60 hours a week, you looking at making less than $10 a hour.
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I'm salaried and rarely work over 40 hours, a few months during a major project, and once in a while when there's a big problem. Unfortunately some employers do take advantage of their exempt people, but there's really no way to know ahead of time.
I'm salaried and rarely work over 40 hours, a few months during a major project, and once in a while when there's a big problem. Unfortunately some employers do take advantage of their exempt people, but there's really no way to know ahead of time.
Exactly. I've been salaried and I've rarely had to work overtime.
I'd make sure during the interview to ask the expected hours up front so that you have a clear understanding of what is expected of you. If they are dodgy or tell you 50-60 hours then you need to do the math and find out what that comes out to hourly and if they lie you can feel free to dump them at any time for a better job.
There are a lot of companies out there especially low paying ones that do abuse salary workers and make them work really bad hours with no overtime and some others where salary is straight 40.
That's why even with a salaried position, dont work more than 40 hours. If anything try to work fewer hours so your tae per hour is higher. That's what I do. I try not to go over 32 hours a week, but i still get paid 40.
If a salaried (or hourly) job is considered exempt, you do not legally have to be paid extra for overtime. How many hours you work and any overtime pay are at the discretion of the employer.
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