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Comment by duskwuff

4 days ago

This is only accurate inasmuch as most salaried employees are overtime exempt for other reasons (e.g. because they are executive or administrative professionals). Paying employees a salary, on its own, does not make them overtime exempt.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17a-overtime

Is there ever a situation where it makes sense to pay fixed salaries to non-exempt employees?

  • One that comes to mind is an on-site caretaker position (e.g. on a remote property), where the employee is effectively being paid to be available, not to do a certain number of hours of work.