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One December 1 anyone making less than 47k on salary will be eligible for over time in the Us.

Has your employer discussed what is going to happen?

In feel this will impact level 2 support personnel most as they normally mage in low 30s to low 40s in smaller companies.

Has this affected other employees not IT, and then ripple to IT

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Hourly employee here, won’t effect me.

However, I believe we have salary people that are under 47k, so it’ll be interesting to see how that shakes out at the end of the year.

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It won’t. While I am salary, my company still pays overtime as they actually classify us properly. It’s a diminishing return however. Using some funky math, we actually make less per hour the more overtime we work. This has two fold reasoning.

  1. It discourages overtime. After 42 hours we are typically sent home. Unless there is a very specific need. If we are on call, we get paid an extra flat fee for having to carry the phone, and then our overtime.

  2. if it’s more than 50 hours we start earning half days back. When I was doing all of my traveling, I would typically have more than 50 hours in a week, so not only did I get to not come in on Fridays, but I also have extra time off.

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We made the change in August.

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only applies to salary exempt…

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Not sure if anyone here is salaried at that figure … as for me personally, I’m higher than that to begin with so it won’t have any affect on me. We’re a small-ish company and the GM is pretty on the ball about things like this, so I doubt it’ll be a problem.

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I’m hourly, so it won’t affect me.

And I believe all of our salaried positions are managers, and they make over 47K.

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Meh not affected here.

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I’m salary but it won’t affect me. Not sure about others in my company though, I’m sure we’ve got salaried employees under 47K somewhere.

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There will be no change for me, paid hourly already.

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It is not across the board for just anyone whose salary is under $47K. There are still many exempt jobs, including many IT related jobs. There are some sites out there that list them, but this is best left to the HR/legal people to determine if a job is exempt or not.

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The exceptions you are talking about is people working hourly , but are not required to be paid over time. IT people making over 23.75 and hour, and all medical professionals. To be salary exempt you must make 47K or higher. I think it will most effect IT people in smaller companies with less than 20 people. We are a MSP and I make slightly under the limit.

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It is my mothers birthday! Other than that it does not mean anything.

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You get paid for this?!?!

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Our folks are discussing it. I’m either getting a generous raise or going hourly

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On December 1… we will finally get start using “affect” vs “effect” correctly.

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So if I understand correctly…

Hourly…no impact.

Salaried (aka exempt)…only impacted if you make less than $47K salary. So they need to start paying overtime (time and a half for over 40 hours). So essentially they’re making you hourly except you are gauranteed 40 hours of pay even if you work say 38 hours a week.

Is there such a thing as non-exempt salaried positions? If so, does that mean they can pay you less than $47K without having to pay overtime?

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I wish that would happen

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I did not know this… References?

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Doesn’t affect (or effect hehehe) me at all but I did ask a co-worker whom I know makes less than me. She told me they have her just a tick over 47k to avoid this. That’s pretty fucking slimy, if you ask me! They make them work SERIOUS overtime!!