Note: The FLSA rules require that employers have to pay at list the minimum wage for the necessary 40 hours of work per week. Any hour above will be paid as overtime unless the employee belongs to an exception category.

The Federal Act have some additions in many states that have their own of salary requirements and laws. The employers must obey both Federal and State regulation.

The employees that were considered as exempt are not paid overtime. The employer can offer a benefits package with extra perks to compensate this employee’s extra work.

The exempt employee must be paid a salary (Not hourly) for performing an executive, professional and administrative job.

When you take all the Federal, State and FLSA laws things are becoming more complicated with relation to interns, independent contractors, temporary workers, volunteers, employees that are under training, and foreign workers that employers have to abide the rules this all laws.

The minimum wage is $7.25 per hour for the 40 hours per week and $ 10.875 per overtime hour.

• Executive

• Professional

• Administrative

Those categories are general in purpose to encompass as many types of jobs as possible.

• The employees that are on a salary opposed to being paid on an hourly base.

• Employees make at least a weekly total of $455.

• Employees on a salary for the week they worked.

To qualify for exemption of overtime workers must meet some employment tests about their job duties and responsibilities.

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The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) instructs the following conditions must be met for the designation of an employee as an exempt employee.

• The executive exemption must have a primary duty of managing the enterprise or a department or subdivision of the enterprise; This employee must direct the work of two employees or more and have the power to hire and fire workforce.

• For the administrative exemption, the employee must have the duty of office and no manual work directly directed to managerial or general business operations of the workplace or the customers. The employee duties must include independent judgment on matters of significance.

• The professional exemption, employees must have a primary duty of work that requires a high level of knowledge like university degrees in highly specialized areas, such as teaching, computer analytics, and engineering.

• Maria is an exempt employee; she is not entitled to overtime pay.

• Bob is a non-exempt employee; he works as many overtime hours as it is possible; this way he makes one and a half time his hourly salary.

• Ruth earns weekly $400 so she is guaranteed to earn overtime for the extra hours she worked at the office.

• Gaining her promotion and a higher salary, Lidia was no longer a non-exempt employee eligible for overtime pay.

• John chose the second of two jobs offered him despite the lower salary because he would be able to make more money as he will be eligible for overtime pay.

Part of the US States Have Different Rules for Overtime Pay

New York has a different salary threshold for New York City or the counties Nassau, and Westchester has a different limit than the rest of New York State.