844$. Is absolutely nothing. Who is working for under that at a salary position... Then again some jobs aren't 40 hours. So maybe that is like a 20 hour a week salary job or something then okay. Wild.
@@TheArchaicFuture You also have to have your own independent discretion--how likely is that when you're paid so little.... That's some catch, that Catch-22!!!! 😉
@@dianapennepacker6854 It's usually managers at stores and restaurants. I know people that quit their job after being given a promotion. They ended working so much more, it was like their pay got cut instead of a raise.
Don’t worry, your hours worked will also be increasing to 96 hours up from 80 hours. Also, health benefits just got cut, every doctor is out of network along with medication co pays are now 90/10. You pay the 90% and insurance will cover the rest after they get the adjustment you’ll owe them 10% . This is the world we live in when big corporations are in bed with big government.
I don't think there should be a cap but if there has to be one it should at least be tied to regional median wages, not be the same for the entire country. $1,128/week is still too low in most cities that are job centers. Salaried is just another way for companies to avoid paying people for their work.
@@Vietnamkid1993most laws like this are based on salary before any and all deductions. So if you make more than that before taxes and insurance, then you likely don’t qualify
This isn't a cap, it's a base minimum- not a cap, or maximum. Your comment is embarrassing & people shouldn't have to pretend you didn't slaughter the concept with your ignorance. This minimum salary is about TWICE what you deserve if you can't even expand on the topic correctly 🤦 it's kinda like you just misspelled stupid 😆🤣😂
Can we see a video that goes into the term "discretion " in this context? Bonus if you also can go over a good litmus test for "exempt"vs non exempt flsa rules.
Ah yes... you essentially make $21/hr and we can call you salaried, so you don't deserve to get paid for your extra hours. Salaried rules suck. Slight bit of freedom in schedule in exchange for unlimited, untracked, unpaid overtime, and 24/7 responsibilities. Modern slavery. Reminder, if you are salaried and work 50hrs/wk, you've given yourself a 25% pay decrease compared to if you stayed hourly
definitely depends on the specific role and employer. my mom is a salaried lawyer and has long assignments that take weeks or months, so it’s more convenient for her to not have to work 8 hours every single day. she works from home a lot, travels a lot, and plans her work schedule around her personal life. she takes days off whenever she wants as long as she can catch up on the work. and she still gets 4 weeks of PTO per year and paid family leave, paid medical leave, etc. she def has some weeks here and there where she has to work around the clock to finish something, but majority of the time it’s not more than 40 hours a week. her job is super mentally challenging and it would definitely stress me out to never really be “done” working, but if you’re someone like her who prioritizes flexibility, it can be a good system if you have a humane employer (big IF, lol).
I'm categorized at work as salaried, but they track our time and we MUST put in full 40 hours. We don't get paid overtime, we get comp time. I can't even get a straight answer on if I'm exempt or non-exempt from HR.
I was thinking the same thing. Honestly speaking and teachers is twofold because we do have some administrative duties with the paperwork but our main job is to teach.
@@johng1513 Being in a union doesn't change the status of your employment from non-exempt to exempt, it is entirely due to specific exemptions in the FLSA. What needs to happen is teacher's unions striking together in order to demand a change to the FLSA.
I'd rather they add some regulations on how much unpaid overtime is exempt from extra pay. In the past salary meant working extra hours here and there but also getting the odd early day or a few extra hours off. Now they work salaried 12-15 hours and deny leaving early on a Friday so they can eliminate additional hiring.
I was a salaried employee in Florida and got completely screwed. Working 6 days a week 10 hours a day and NO overtime. I will NEVER work salaried again
I would much rather not get a raise and not be forced to work overtime. Time off is worth more than all the money in the world, and unless you choose to work, you shouldn't have to.
I agree with you, but time off is only worth more than anything in the world. If you have enough money to say that to be completely realistic with you so more like money is worth anything in the world because you are only able to say that when you have enough to pay for rent in food😂 It's a sad but true fact
@@marcuspiercr6392 that's where the choice comes in they would still be able to work overtime and be properly compensated for that instead of forcing everyone to work overtime and give them a small raise.
Depends on the job for me. With my current job there's an ebb and flow. Few weeks of very long hours...I'm talking working 7am- midnight 7 days a week. But most of the time I only work Tuesday - Friday and I even get whole weeks off at a time. If anything despite the occasional long hours I probably come out on top. Add to that a decent salary and great benefits and it's worth it 😁
This is so weird for us from normal countries with proper worker’s rights. 😏 Over here, politicians stay out of labour relations. Unions and employer organisations negotiate. Only when something has become “universal” or is a human right is it legislated. Like 25 days minimum paid vacation.
People in America are mostly convinced for some reason that unions are “communist”, or they don’t work out in people’s favor. They’re being lied to by the big corporations who will say that unions decrease freedoms and choice. When in reality after the dues, you’re still so much better off in terms of rights, stability, and pay.
yes, so weird to watch this . i am glad, tough that USA workers seems to be waking up... but breaks my heart to see them so far behind and being treated like sh*t as if it was normal or virtuous.
Well here in the US, some states are trying to make unions illegal, I'm not joking. One states just banned employers from voluntarily recognizing a union.
Laborers aren't salaried. So if you're salaried, you can work 100 hours a week and only get paid for 40. If you're not, you'll get your hourly plus time and a half. So say you're salaried and your per hour pay comes out to 25. You work 60 hours, you're paid for 40, or 1k. Now you're a laborer making 20 an hour. 800 for 40 hours plus 600 for 20 hours OT.
Laborer here currently payed 45k salary with annual increases no overtime pay even if I work more hours in addition I'm asked to work additional days frequently at 32$ per hour but that does not come close to what it would be in overtime and even the 4 days I work it's closer to 12 hour days on each day.
Walmart assistant managers are considered salaried. The store where I worked they were mostly out on the floor doing regular hourly work such as working in the truck and covering registers. Not just Walmart who does this either.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Walmart pays those salaried ASMs as exempt. The Executive Exemption is broad enough that the company would argue they qualify.
@@imjashingyou3461 I worked at Walmart for 5 years, and one of my best friends was an ASM. It did not matter how many hours he worked, he was given a salary based on a 50-hour work week. There are some weeks where he said he was making under 16 an hour based on his hours worked. Salary at Walmart is just a scam when you consider that Walmart uses its ASMs to fill in for shortfalls in staffing.
@@imjashingyou3461walmart salaried managers are exempt workers. Those positions are literally labeled Facility Management Exempt our internal company site on when looking at compensation plans /pay scales etc. No matter how many hours they work their pay check remains the same.
It’s pretty standard that salaried retail managers are considered exempt. Probably half of the store manager positions at any given mall are salaried WITH a REQUIRED MINIMUM HOURS WORKED of 45 hours/week. This is a very normal part of the retail management industry in America, and it needs to be changed.
This finally spells the end of meme job titles. No more "Part-time Amenities Managers", "Directors of First Impressions", or "Executive Vehicle Managers". Kinda sad, but also about time😂
You need a congressional act to raise minimum wage. This just requires approval of the president. I get that the minimum wage needs to be raised. However many states are taking care of that and why should other suffer just because we havent been able to solve the suffering of some others.
@@VayxesYeah, they still think that minimum-wage workers are all either a) teenagers, or b) too stupid to get a 'real' job, therefore unworthy of a living wage.
Because in a lot of states, companies are using the fact that the minimum salaried wage is only around $15 an hour to make fast food and retail workers "managers" with a salary in order to pay them even less by forcing them to work extra hours above the 40 hours a week without time and a half which the company will argue meets the Executive exemption. Before the change goes into effect, the main minimum wage to be exempt from overtime is $35,568. If you work an employee 50 hours a week, you will be paying them 13.68 an hour which is well above the federal minimum wage but below the state minimum wage in a lot of places. About 34 states have a minimum wage higher than the Federal one but only a few (including NY and California) have wages in line with the upcoming change.
I'm in Portland Oregon... I have an apartment and a car.... making $487/week after taxes. My rent + utilities is $1625. Yet I make too much for food stamps. I'm hungry.... and my car registration is expired ha.
@@SeanMahoneyfitnessandart sounds like you need to get rid of the apartment and rent a room out of someones house. I did that for awhile before I made enough to get my own apartment without worrying
@@ObiwanNekodysome states it does Michigan has both a Normal, Tipped, and Minor (16-17) minimum wage Each are different amount (Tipped often equals [employer pay + average expected time] the normal minimum), if I remember as of 2023 the minor is like $10.10/hour. We're working on making our minimum progressively reach $15/hour by like 2030 or so
How long have you had this job? $4.25/hr is the lowest possible youth minimum wage in the US, but I believe it can only be that low for the first 90 calendar days.
When I was an employee, I never fell for the salaried employee trick. I always went for hourly. To me, being on salary just means I'll get overworked and under paid.
For the next guy… $1,128 x 52 = $58,656. Also, per ADP’s California tax calculator, the take home is $893.57 per week, or $46,465.64 per year (-$12,190.36).
Tbf, I have to work 60 hours a week between 2 jobs to afford living expenses anyway. I would not complain if it was 60 hours at one job, occasionally less, full time benefits, and for more pay. The cost of living crisis is ridiculous
This is not ENOUGH. Companies will use it as an EXCUSE to raise prices further. The companies have to be FORCED to freeze prices, and housing must be FORCED to severely crash WITH an investor purchase ban with sell off.
Though the law disagrees, I think salary means you're paid for the job, not the hours. If an employer says salaried workers are required to put in 44 hours a week regardless of performance/deliverables, they are treating you as hourly. Perhaps individual discretion should allow you to say I've acquitted myself well, done my job well, I'm hitting the golf course Friday afternoon.
Salaried employees (in the US these employees don't get overtime and the employer/company can take any money they make from a 2nd job or gig) should be only those that make at least 10 times the average worker. Yes, some employees should be "salaried". This is the upper management or C-suite. Those make enough that working more doesn't require overtime pay (they will probably get a performance bonus if the profits are high enough) and should focus only on that company.
Personally this would screw me over as an employee. I work in a seasonal county that's pretty much closed 6 months out of the year, jobs really hard to find in winter months. I work 27 hours a week in winter and 40-45 in summer. I prefer working 1 job year round, but most locals work 2 jobs in the summer while being unemployed in the winter. So me and my boss has an agreement to just pay me the same check amount every week, which averages out to be in my favor by roughly me making a dollar an hour more compared to what hours I'm actually working, close to evening out if taking into account overtime.
One thing I often see you miss is that there are some industries where this just doesn't apply. In many states, seasonal camp counselors, agricultural workers, and more, are not just exempt from overtime pay, but exempt from minium wage laws entirely. In my first camp counselor role, I was paid a salary of $450 for 6 weeks of full-time work, and it was 100% legal. I'm not complaining or anything. I didn't care about the pay, since I had been a camper at this place all my life and it was like a second home to me. I would have paid to work there if I had to, but that's not the point.
$21 an hour is not bad in many parts of the country. People do like predictable income. If you worked for hourly wages and it’s a slow week, your employer could send you home after 30 hours and you take a pay cut. People like to think that all this is a one way road to benefit the employer. It’s not. Also, this is essentially minimum wage for salaried people. If that’s what you are making after 5+ years on the job, you should rethink your career choices.
my current job (though not for long lmao) dodged this by dropping me from being salaried to being paid hourly, at a wage that i was earning over a year ago in a lower position.
What I can’t understand is Americans not standing up for hardworking people! The most precious value in this life is time! Ask anyone on their death bed! ALL of us have a finite amount of hours on this planet! When you give one of those hours to a business, that time deserves respect & adequate compensation! Including the guy that stops the spread of illness & disease by scrubbing your shit off the employee toilet! Jeff Bezos & the like are not entitled to cheap labor!
It will change nothing. Workers will comply for fear of their jobs. Salary for people who are not paid well tied to productivity and profit is a problem. I was paid well when I worked a salaried job, but I couldn't afford to live where I worked (Orlando). I quit. I work a union job now.
What kind of pay increase will retirees in Mississippi get who are on Medicare kidney transplant patients stroke victims and stuff like that and they make less than $2,000 a month less than 1500 a month after deductibles if they have to pay their rent in a car Insurance their utility bills in other bills that they have groceries and food vehicle repairs how much extra money will those people get
I took a job that paid " comp time " the assholes really took advantage of it . I stuck around 1.5 years to get the experience in a research career then walked . The people that took their comp time got canned . They found a way to get rid of them .
Great... meanwhile the federal minimum wage hasn't moved from 7.25, and raising it to 15 won't be enough either. It's an improvement, but unless inflation and price gouging is dealt with it won't matter.
Raising minimum wage will only increase inflation. Also almost no company pays federal minimum wage. Even fast food starts at $12 or so and that's in Texas.
@@HH-le1vi Not how that works. Inflation is not caused by increased wages, its caused by corporations raising prices, because they are greedy and share holders demand continued growth (infinite growth in a finite world) in the form of increasing profits, thats why we constantly hear about layoffs and the like its a scheme to increase profits for shareholders in the short term, so CEOs can get their contractual bonues. Corps expect their workers to work for peanuts while they rake in all the profits for themselves. They don't need to raise prices as they make more than they can spend, its just more wealth, more zeros in their bank, their greed knows no limit and its destroying our society as a result.
@@ToxicAudri it's caused by multiple things. You increase wages, that means companies have to increase prices to maintain their margins. That's how it works regardless of what you think it is.
@@ToxicAudri they have to because it's their fiduciary duty as a publicly traded company to maintain profit. If they don't they get sued. So yes they have to raise prices. Run a business one day and tell me you don't need profit. What an absolutely ignorant statement
This right here. I am a “supervisor” for a blue collar company. I diagnose issues at peoples properties and sell them the work. Make $500 a week plus a percentage a week if I’m over a certain amount.
@@christiangervais479 He said in the video that it needs to be office based administrative work, so if your doing on site diagnosis, this likely wouldnt apply to you.
Salaried employee but not better off than an hourly employee....except the benefits. Tons of hourly employees are kept at part time for the specific reason of if they were made full time, they would have to be given benefits. Corporate literally has a policy against that.
so many places illegally deny overtime and underpay you with no admin discretion - an old friend of mine is retired from being a salaried Maintenance man for an apartment complex - the only one. I told him to get a lawyer, but he didn't want to get fired and evicted over suing. That's why they do it - just like any other sleazy employer; they bank on you being too afraid of the consequences to actually put the screws to them. Not me! I'll suffer for years just to do it, because I'll file addendum claims and end up owning the fucking place in the end! I'm patient, just like Thranduil.
Over time should pay 5 times more than what the persons wage is and not be limited. This in theory, should make employers more likely to be fair to their employees. Such as companies that net billions of dollars yearly and penny pinch by eliminating jobs. If there are more employees then there is less opportunity for over time, there for this saves money.
Can we implement this for manual labor jobs? I work at a nursery in arizona. I plant, transplant and transport cactus and trees. I make 16 an hour and about 55 hours a week with no overtime pay just to get by.
More rules for employers......it's almost like they want us to just fire everyone and sell our businesses. I'd make more investing in anything else, rather than keep my business going to just keep my employee's jobs. It's just too much trouble to own a business these days.
Companies will close. Prices will go up! That’s what they’ll say on Fox and the workers who will benefit will be upset. CEO pay increases are okay though
Yep, it sounds like a rule that makes people happy but doesn’t really do anything for the salary people that work in our employed slaves. The rule is skewed. We need somebody to write it that doesn’t have skin in the game sign that our government hears us, but don’t understand and don’t care.
@@friartuck4286 having those options be the only options available means its functionally forcing said individual. Grow up and learn some of the nuances of our economy.
Just because you don't have to work there doesn't make the employer's actions tenable. "You don't have to marry him so don't complain when he abuses his girlfriend"@@friartuck4286
yeah the issue is, so many places will just offer hourly pay, even with having degrees, that benefitting salaried workers is not gonna help the real group struggling.
The only people who should not be entitled to overtime pay are those who earn a significant portion of their compensation in stocks, bonuses, or commissions. If they set that value to 20%, then there is no ambiguity. If you earn $100k a year base salary , you get overtime unless you earn an additional sum of $20k in stock, bonuses, or commissions. Simple and fair.
@HH-le1vi that's true, although in my case fed/medi/ss taxes add up to be much higher than state to where state is almost insignificant. But yeah this is great for people being screwed into salaried positions but only helps temporarily bc by the next two increases, either the cost of living will increase where the bonus will be insignificant or you'll have moved on to something better just outside of that range.
How about politicians maximum salaries are the lowest minimum wage of the districts they represent- NO OT. Now that'd incentivise economic growth across the country like history has never seen before. Voting for their own pay increases is insane and needs to end ASAP.
Well employers are responsible for any damage they cause you at work. And anything over 60 hours a week will definitly cause damages. It would be reckless and stupid to work someone 60 or more hours a week. Heck based on Fords motor co.'s very risky and expensive experements in labor and economic forces it is stupid and self sabatoging to work anyone more then 20 hours a week. But. stupid is as stupid does. No clue what regulations might apply. (Im not saying Ford Motor Co. ignored thier own studies and experments. A 40 hour work week was the Athem for the labor movement of the early 20th century, and the results can only push investor relations so far so 40 is where Ford stayed)
@@AnonymousAnarchist2I've ran studies at companies for what the OT hours or hours per day cap should be. For most people after 10 hours your productivity tanks and it goes down about half every hour after, so we capped our hours at 10/day or 60/week. Whichever came first.
From an employers perspective I'd guess if you constantly have to pay o.t. it's time to hire another person so it's normal pay and not o.t. I'd you can't afford the normal pay, look at your profit structure as each hour worked should be providing net profit to the company at normal pay rates.
I was a salaried manager for 10 different restaurants in 2000 to 2012. Since then I have been the recipient of 10 different lawsuits against those companies for working us as hourly employees without overtime.
It’s all a trade off. Personally, hourly stresses me out because my boss can cut my hours anytime and I can’t depend on consistent income (where I live, they don’t even have to give early notice of schedule changes). Whereas with salary I know so long as I don’t get fired or laid off, I’ll make at least x amount no matter how much or little I work. The flip side of no overtime is you also get paid the same if you don’t have much work to do or if you work quickly. It’s still important to calculate how much the salary equates to in hourly though, to check your time is valued how you want.
excuse me but federally mandated $2.13 an hour for restaurant servers is absolute bullshit. It doesn’t cover taxes. I pay $3500 a year out-of-pocket. Which I currently have a credit card. I’m paying $347 a month. Sad thing is my debt will run into next year. I have to come up with that same exact amount of money again all because I can’t get five dollars an hour.
Not only is that a ridiculously low wage for being expected to work whenever called, theres way to many companies creating lazy af employees who use that metric to avoid real work
It would be way cheaper to just pay by the hour. 80 hours per week at minimum wage = $600 per week, and your employees probably don't work that long every week.
The fact that you can call someone salaried for so little in pay is disgusting
844$.
Is absolutely nothing. Who is working for under that at a salary position...
Then again some jobs aren't 40 hours. So maybe that is like a 20 hour a week salary job or something then okay.
Wild.
From the salary and office/admin work stipulations, it seems like it's primarily for receptionists/admin assistants/secretaries
@@TheArchaicFuture You also have to have your own independent discretion--how likely is that when you're paid so little....
That's some catch, that Catch-22!!!! 😉
@@dianapennepacker6854 884 a week. That's 46k a year. That's not a bad salary in most states.
@@dianapennepacker6854 It's usually managers at stores and restaurants. I know people that quit their job after being given a promotion. They ended working so much more, it was like their pay got cut instead of a raise.
"Millions of workers are getting a raise." 😀
"So their employers can legally deny them overtime." 😡
Don’t worry, your hours worked will also be increasing to 96 hours up from 80 hours. Also, health benefits just got cut, every doctor is out of network along with medication co pays are now 90/10. You pay the 90% and insurance will cover the rest after they get the adjustment you’ll owe them 10% . This is the world we live in when big corporations are in bed with big government.
I don't think there should be a cap but if there has to be one it should at least be tied to regional median wages, not be the same for the entire country. $1,128/week is still too low in most cities that are job centers. Salaried is just another way for companies to avoid paying people for their work.
This is based on the minimum wage in your state
@@heatheralexander7640Thanks. I see now that it's $684/week Federal and $1,059/week CA which seems low for CA.
So this doesn't cover insurance right? Otherwise I'm not even making 1.1k a week
@@Vietnamkid1993most laws like this are based on salary before any and all deductions. So if you make more than that before taxes and insurance, then you likely don’t qualify
This isn't a cap, it's a base minimum- not a cap, or maximum. Your comment is embarrassing & people shouldn't have to pretend you didn't slaughter the concept with your ignorance. This minimum salary is about TWICE what you deserve if you can't even expand on the topic correctly 🤦 it's kinda like you just misspelled stupid 😆🤣😂
Veronica is gonna have a field day with this one!!!
That’s why I work 30 hours and pretend to work the other 10.
I would not work over 40 hours a week of I were salaried. That’s full time.
Can we see a video that goes into the term "discretion " in this context? Bonus if you also can go over a good litmus test for "exempt"vs non exempt flsa rules.
Look on the DOL website.
I’m an engineer. I have discretion on which of the current tasks I tackle and how I do so.
Ah yes... you essentially make $21/hr and we can call you salaried, so you don't deserve to get paid for your extra hours.
Salaried rules suck. Slight bit of freedom in schedule in exchange for unlimited, untracked, unpaid overtime, and 24/7 responsibilities. Modern slavery.
Reminder, if you are salaried and work 50hrs/wk, you've given yourself a 25% pay decrease compared to if you stayed hourly
Yup. Don't take a salary unless you know your hourly worth.
definitely depends on the specific role and employer. my mom is a salaried lawyer and has long assignments that take weeks or months, so it’s more convenient for her to not have to work 8 hours every single day. she works from home a lot, travels a lot, and plans her work schedule around her personal life. she takes days off whenever she wants as long as she can catch up on the work. and she still gets 4 weeks of PTO per year and paid family leave, paid medical leave, etc. she def has some weeks here and there where she has to work around the clock to finish something, but majority of the time it’s not more than 40 hours a week. her job is super mentally challenging and it would definitely stress me out to never really be “done” working, but if you’re someone like her who prioritizes flexibility, it can be a good system if you have a humane employer (big IF, lol).
@@rileybaker9224her time management is wonderful, to be workong less than 40 hours a week as a lawyer is super impressive
My boss comes in an hour late and sometimes one works a half day. Usually she leaves 10 minutes before us.i think last week she missed about 2 days
I'm categorized at work as salaried, but they track our time and we MUST put in full 40 hours. We don't get paid overtime, we get comp time. I can't even get a straight answer on if I'm exempt or non-exempt from HR.
So... how are teachers still FLSA exempt? We definitely do not have an office-based, administrative role.
I was thinking the same thing. Honestly speaking and teachers is twofold because we do have some administrative duties with the paperwork but our main job is to teach.
The two biggest hurdles: public employment and union.
It changes a lot of laws... though I haven't a clue if it actually applies to your situation.
That's a good question.
Well chances are as a teacher you are part of a union. So your pay and what not is all decided through collective bargaining.
@@johng1513 Being in a union doesn't change the status of your employment from non-exempt to exempt, it is entirely due to specific exemptions in the FLSA.
What needs to happen is teacher's unions striking together in order to demand a change to the FLSA.
I'd rather they add some regulations on how much unpaid overtime is exempt from extra pay. In the past salary meant working extra hours here and there but also getting the odd early day or a few extra hours off. Now they work salaried 12-15 hours and deny leaving early on a Friday so they can eliminate additional hiring.
I was a salaried employee in Florida and got completely screwed. Working 6 days a week 10 hours a day and NO overtime. I will NEVER work salaried again
I would much rather not get a raise and not be forced to work overtime. Time off is worth more than all the money in the world, and unless you choose to work, you shouldn't have to.
I agree with you, but time off is only worth more than anything in the world. If you have enough money to say that to be completely realistic with you so more like money is worth anything in the world because you are only able to say that when you have enough to pay for rent in food😂 It's a sad but true fact
@@marcuspiercr6392 that's where the choice comes in they would still be able to work overtime and be properly compensated for that instead of forcing everyone to work overtime and give them a small raise.
Depends on the job for me. With my current job there's an ebb and flow. Few weeks of very long hours...I'm talking working 7am- midnight 7 days a week.
But most of the time I only work Tuesday - Friday and I even get whole weeks off at a time. If anything despite the occasional long hours I probably come out on top.
Add to that a decent salary and great benefits and it's worth it 😁
This is so weird for us from normal countries with proper worker’s rights. 😏
Over here, politicians stay out of labour relations. Unions and employer organisations negotiate. Only when something has become “universal” or is a human right is it legislated. Like 25 days minimum paid vacation.
People in America are mostly convinced for some reason that unions are “communist”, or they don’t work out in people’s favor. They’re being lied to by the big corporations who will say that unions decrease freedoms and choice. When in reality after the dues, you’re still so much better off in terms of rights, stability, and pay.
yes, so weird to watch this . i am glad, tough that USA workers seems to be waking up... but breaks my heart to see them so far behind and being treated like sh*t as if it was normal or virtuous.
Well here in the US, some states are trying to make unions illegal, I'm not joking. One states just banned employers from voluntarily recognizing a union.
@@austinhernandez2716 ouch. sounds like hopeless situation. maybe there are solutions?
@@austinhernandez2716Curious. Which state?
Can you explain independent discretion?
The ability to make executive decisions. How many poorly paid salaried workers are allowed to make decisions???
Vice Presidents don't have independent discretion. Talk about a vague and meaningless phrase. Yay! Government.
Boss: We’re giving you a raise!
Employee: Sweet a raise!
**Gets less on paycheck**
At a federal level $4k a month is killing it… only like 15 states where thats not a great wage.
I remember the change when they first adjusted these rules. My employer went from two salaried managers to one and an hourly assistant
I think this is fair. If your making 20$/hr and you work 50hours thats 1k.
So this won't do anything for me as a state employee who works for DCNR as a SSL
So this helps those who work in offices and not the actual laborer, got it👍
Laborers aren't salaried. So if you're salaried, you can work 100 hours a week and only get paid for 40. If you're not, you'll get your hourly plus time and a half. So say you're salaried and your per hour pay comes out to 25. You work 60 hours, you're paid for 40, or 1k. Now you're a laborer making 20 an hour. 800 for 40 hours plus 600 for 20 hours OT.
Laborer here currently payed 45k salary with annual increases no overtime pay even if I work more hours in addition I'm asked to work additional days frequently at 32$ per hour but that does not come close to what it would be in overtime and even the 4 days I work it's closer to 12 hour days on each day.
@@gyishin
So, what your saying is you make less than what I do..
its just under 59k, we are all middle managers at best.
Walmart assistant managers are considered salaried. The store where I worked they were mostly out on the floor doing regular hourly work such as working in the truck and covering registers.
Not just Walmart who does this either.
This is for salaried exempt that cant get overtime. Not salaried workers. Those walmart managers will be required to be paid overtime.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Walmart pays those salaried ASMs as exempt. The Executive Exemption is broad enough that the company would argue they qualify.
@@imjashingyou3461 I worked at Walmart for 5 years, and one of my best friends was an ASM. It did not matter how many hours he worked, he was given a salary based on a 50-hour work week.
There are some weeks where he said he was making under 16 an hour based on his hours worked. Salary at Walmart is just a scam when you consider that Walmart uses its ASMs to fill in for shortfalls in staffing.
@@imjashingyou3461walmart salaried managers are exempt workers. Those positions are literally labeled Facility Management Exempt our internal company site on when looking at compensation plans /pay scales etc. No matter how many hours they work their pay check remains the same.
It’s pretty standard that salaried retail managers are considered exempt. Probably half of the store manager positions at any given mall are salaried WITH a REQUIRED MINIMUM HOURS WORKED of 45 hours/week. This is a very normal part of the retail management industry in America, and it needs to be changed.
This finally spells the end of meme job titles. No more "Part-time Amenities Managers", "Directors of First Impressions", or "Executive Vehicle Managers". Kinda sad, but also about time😂
Why though are they doing THIS when the Federal min wage is still $7.25/hr?!
Because they don't care about minimum wage workers, salary workers have "real jobs"
Republicans block helping Americans at every opportunity
You need a congressional act to raise minimum wage. This just requires approval of the president.
I get that the minimum wage needs to be raised. However many states are taking care of that and why should other suffer just because we havent been able to solve the suffering of some others.
@@VayxesYeah, they still think that minimum-wage workers are all either a) teenagers, or b) too stupid to get a 'real' job, therefore unworthy of a living wage.
Because in a lot of states, companies are using the fact that the minimum salaried wage is only around $15 an hour to make fast food and retail workers "managers" with a salary in order to pay them even less by forcing them to work extra hours above the 40 hours a week without time and a half which the company will argue meets the Executive exemption.
Before the change goes into effect, the main minimum wage to be exempt from overtime is $35,568. If you work an employee 50 hours a week, you will be paying them 13.68 an hour which is well above the federal minimum wage but below the state minimum wage in a lot of places. About 34 states have a minimum wage higher than the Federal one but only a few (including NY and California) have wages in line with the upcoming change.
Me, watching this after getting off my $11.50 an hour job where half my coworkers have college degrees
Neither of those is a living wage.
Depends entirely on where you are. I'm in Texas and have a car and apartment making 55k a year.
I'm in Portland Oregon... I have an apartment and a car.... making $487/week after taxes.
My rent + utilities is $1625.
Yet I make too much for food stamps.
I'm hungry.... and my car registration is expired ha.
@@SeanMahoneyfitnessandart sounds like you need to get rid of the apartment and rent a room out of someones house. I did that for awhile before I made enough to get my own apartment without worrying
@@HH-le1vi been there... done that.... I ended up suing the homeowner .... successfully... not a mess I'll ever get myself into again.
@@SeanMahoneyfitnessandart then the struggle will continue
US government always working hard to keep those classes separated. This should be for all workers but will rather cater to one group.
Get ready for the “we don’t have enough money” speeches followed by lay offs.
So i work in education under TRIO, im not eligible for overtime. Would this mean i get paid more now?
Not if you’re below a certain age though, I’m 15 and getting paid about $4 an hour for a $20/h job
You need to talk to a lawyer, minimum wage doesn't care about age. Also salaried is different from wage, and you are clearly working a wage job.
@@ObiwanNekodysome states it does
Michigan has both a Normal, Tipped, and Minor (16-17) minimum wage
Each are different amount (Tipped often equals [employer pay + average expected time] the normal minimum), if I remember as of 2023 the minor is like $10.10/hour. We're working on making our minimum progressively reach $15/hour by like 2030 or so
@@ObiwanNekody most states by law can pay minors a lower wage, usually with exceptions on what hours they can work and what duties they can perform.
How long have you had this job? $4.25/hr is the lowest possible youth minimum wage in the US, but I believe it can only be that low for the first 90 calendar days.
That’s not ok! You deserve to be paid fairly and employers use that as a way to avoid paying real wages. It hurts everyone
This won't apply puerto rico because the government said so 😢
When I was an employee, I never fell for the salaried employee trick. I always went for hourly. To me, being on salary just means I'll get overworked and under paid.
$844 per week was good money back in the 90’s.
If only this counted for medical residents.
For the next guy… $1,128 x 52 = $58,656.
Also, per ADP’s California tax calculator, the take home is $893.57 per week, or $46,465.64 per year (-$12,190.36).
Tbf, I have to work 60 hours a week between 2 jobs to afford living expenses anyway.
I would not complain if it was 60 hours at one job, occasionally less, full time benefits, and for more pay.
The cost of living crisis is ridiculous
This is not ENOUGH. Companies will use it as an EXCUSE to raise prices further. The companies have to be FORCED to freeze prices, and housing must be FORCED to severely crash WITH an investor purchase ban with sell off.
Though the law disagrees, I think salary means you're paid for the job, not the hours. If an employer says salaried workers are required to put in 44 hours a week regardless of performance/deliverables, they are treating you as hourly. Perhaps individual discretion should allow you to say I've acquitted myself well, done my job well, I'm hitting the golf course Friday afternoon.
Salaried employees (in the US these employees don't get overtime and the employer/company can take any money they make from a 2nd job or gig) should be only those that make at least 10 times the average worker. Yes, some employees should be "salaried". This is the upper management or C-suite. Those make enough that working more doesn't require overtime pay (they will probably get a performance bonus if the profits are high enough) and should focus only on that company.
C suite get stock options as part of compensation as well
Personally this would screw me over as an employee. I work in a seasonal county that's pretty much closed 6 months out of the year, jobs really hard to find in winter months. I work 27 hours a week in winter and 40-45 in summer. I prefer working 1 job year round, but most locals work 2 jobs in the summer while being unemployed in the winter.
So me and my boss has an agreement to just pay me the same check amount every week, which averages out to be in my favor by roughly me making a dollar an hour more compared to what hours I'm actually working, close to evening out if taking into account overtime.
One thing I often see you miss is that there are some industries where this just doesn't apply. In many states, seasonal camp counselors, agricultural workers, and more, are not just exempt from overtime pay, but exempt from minium wage laws entirely.
In my first camp counselor role, I was paid a salary of $450 for 6 weeks of full-time work, and it was 100% legal. I'm not complaining or anything. I didn't care about the pay, since I had been a camper at this place all my life and it was like a second home to me. I would have paid to work there if I had to, but that's not the point.
$21 an hour is not bad in many parts of the country. People do like predictable income. If you worked for hourly wages and it’s a slow week, your employer could send you home after 30 hours and you take a pay cut.
People like to think that all this is a one way road to benefit the employer. It’s not.
Also, this is essentially minimum wage for salaried people. If that’s what you are making after 5+ years on the job, you should rethink your career choices.
my current job (though not for long lmao) dodged this by dropping me from being salaried to being paid hourly, at a wage that i was earning over a year ago in a lower position.
Does this apply to teachers as well?
It should never be legal to not pay overtime if person is expected/made/pressured to work beyond regular hours, usually 40h/week.
So how would this effect teachers. All of which are considered salary and often are forced to work overtime with no pay/compensation.
What I can’t understand is Americans not standing up for hardworking people! The most precious value in this life is time! Ask anyone on their death bed! ALL of us have a finite amount of hours on this planet! When you give one of those hours to a business, that time deserves respect & adequate compensation! Including the guy that stops the spread of illness & disease by scrubbing your shit off the employee toilet! Jeff Bezos & the like are not entitled to cheap labor!
It will change nothing. Workers will comply for fear of their jobs. Salary for people who are not paid well tied to productivity and profit is a problem. I was paid well when I worked a salaried job, but I couldn't afford to live where I worked (Orlando). I quit. I work a union job now.
What kind of pay increase will retirees in Mississippi get who are on Medicare kidney transplant patients stroke victims and stuff like that and they make less than $2,000 a month less than 1500 a month after deductibles if they have to pay their rent in a car Insurance their utility bills in other bills that they have groceries and food vehicle repairs how much extra money will those people get
I took a job that paid " comp time " the assholes really took advantage of it . I stuck around 1.5 years to get the experience in a research career then walked . The people that took their comp time got canned . They found a way to get rid of them .
Great... meanwhile the federal minimum wage hasn't moved from 7.25, and raising it to 15 won't be enough either. It's an improvement, but unless inflation and price gouging is dealt with it won't matter.
Raising minimum wage will only increase inflation. Also almost no company pays federal minimum wage. Even fast food starts at $12 or so and that's in Texas.
@@HH-le1vi Not how that works. Inflation is not caused by increased wages, its caused by corporations raising prices, because they are greedy and share holders demand continued growth (infinite growth in a finite world) in the form of increasing profits, thats why we constantly hear about layoffs and the like its a scheme to increase profits for shareholders in the short term, so CEOs can get their contractual bonues.
Corps expect their workers to work for peanuts while they rake in all the profits for themselves.
They don't need to raise prices as they make more than they can spend, its just more wealth, more zeros in their bank, their greed knows no limit and its destroying our society as a result.
@@ToxicAudri it's caused by multiple things. You increase wages, that means companies have to increase prices to maintain their margins. That's how it works regardless of what you think it is.
@@HH-le1vi They don't have to increase prices, they choose to do so, because shareholders want more and more.
@@ToxicAudri they have to because it's their fiduciary duty as a publicly traded company to maintain profit. If they don't they get sued. So yes they have to raise prices. Run a business one day and tell me you don't need profit. What an absolutely ignorant statement
How does that work with a “commission based position” ? My wife is in insurance, and they pay ~$35k as salary “plus bonus” for “sales goals”
This right here. I am a “supervisor” for a blue collar company. I diagnose issues at peoples properties and sell them the work. Make $500 a week plus a percentage a week if I’m over a certain amount.
I hope someone sees this who knows the answer
I am curious as well
The base pay for the postion need to be over the threshold
@@christiangervais479 He said in the video that it needs to be office based administrative work, so if your doing on site diagnosis, this likely wouldnt apply to you.
Agricultural workers don't get overtime
They work harder too…
Depending on the state, wage laws don't even apply to agricultural workers.
Force money demand. Inflation will stay, people will get screwed. Raising minimum wages kills money value and will hurt regular people
As a truckers working 70 hours every 5 days. It's a wet dream to even think of overtime, our companies get by with "load pay"
Salaried employee but not better off than an hourly employee....except the benefits.
Tons of hourly employees are kept at part time for the specific reason of if they were made full time, they would have to be given benefits. Corporate literally has a policy against that.
In January that’s over $58,000 per year and over $28 per hour. That’s insane.
so many places illegally deny overtime and underpay you with no admin discretion - an old friend of mine is retired from being a salaried Maintenance man for an apartment complex - the only one. I told him to get a lawyer, but he didn't want to get fired and evicted over suing.
That's why they do it - just like any other sleazy employer; they bank on you being too afraid of the consequences to actually put the screws to them.
Not me! I'll suffer for years just to do it, because I'll file addendum claims and end up owning the fucking place in the end! I'm patient, just like Thranduil.
Over time should pay 5 times more than what the persons wage is and not be limited. This in theory, should make employers more likely to be fair to their employees. Such as companies that net billions of dollars yearly and penny pinch by eliminating jobs. If there are more employees then there is less opportunity for over time, there for this saves money.
The idea that anyone would work 40 hours a week is disgusting. That someone would dare ask for more is just insane.
Can we implement this for manual labor jobs? I work at a nursery in arizona. I plant, transplant and transport cactus and trees. I make 16 an hour and about 55 hours a week with no overtime pay just to get by.
I will never work overtime again. I put in 24hrs in a weekend just to take home 4 hrs pay after overtime taxes.
More rules for employers......it's almost like they want us to just fire everyone and sell our businesses. I'd make more investing in anything else, rather than keep my business going to just keep my employee's jobs. It's just too much trouble to own a business these days.
Abolish employment return to contracts. If you can’t negotiate benefits that you want and don’t want that’s on you.
This should be hourly pay instead because not all of the office administration jobs are necessary
Yep that’s gonna cause more inflation
Companies will close. Prices will go up! That’s what they’ll say on Fox and the workers who will benefit will be upset. CEO pay increases are okay though
You Forgot to include that Texas is exempt from this rule
Yep, it sounds like a rule that makes people happy but doesn’t really do anything for the salary people that work in our employed slaves. The rule is skewed. We need somebody to write it that doesn’t have skin in the game sign that our government hears us, but don’t understand and don’t care.
You don’t have to work there which means you’re not a slave. Grow up already.
@@friartuck4286 having those options be the only options available means its functionally forcing said individual. Grow up and learn some of the nuances of our economy.
@@friartuck4286😢 why so rude? do you happen to be a boomer owned real estate?
Just because you don't have to work there doesn't make the employer's actions tenable. "You don't have to marry him so don't complain when he abuses his girlfriend"@@friartuck4286
Salaried employees getting denied overtime is plain dumb. Lol. I know its a law but it shouldn't be this way.
Writing on bingo card ”increased unemployment”
Well this explains why my boss wants to put me back on hourly.
yeah the issue is, so many places will just offer hourly pay, even with having degrees, that benefitting salaried workers is not gonna help the real group struggling.
Fair ! But need to cap the hours at 60
The only people who should not be entitled to overtime pay are those who earn a significant portion of their compensation in stocks, bonuses, or commissions. If they set that value to 20%, then there is no ambiguity. If you earn $100k a year base salary , you get overtime unless you earn an additional sum of $20k in stock, bonuses, or commissions. Simple and fair.
Is this gross income or net income?
Gross, I'd assume.
@RobertMcGlynJrRob unfortunate. I wouldnt see anything from this for like 4 years lol
@@bpindelgovernment can't really use net. Each state has different tax rates and so does each person so your net won't be the same as someone else's.
@HH-le1vi that's true, although in my case fed/medi/ss taxes add up to be much higher than state to where state is almost insignificant. But yeah this is great for people being screwed into salaried positions but only helps temporarily bc by the next two increases, either the cost of living will increase where the bonus will be insignificant or you'll have moved on to something better just outside of that range.
How about politicians maximum salaries are the lowest minimum wage of the districts they represent- NO OT. Now that'd incentivise economic growth across the country like history has never seen before. Voting for their own pay increases is insane and needs to end ASAP.
The answer is in getting all the red tape and politics out of the way and let the market decide
Not that federal minimum wage really matters. I believe the economic term is "nonbinding"
I was really looking forward to this but I make too much but I work 60hrs every other week
Does it count for federal employees?
How much overtime is acceptable/tolerated before it's too much? Is there an actual regulation for that?
Well employers are responsible for any damage they cause you at work.
And anything over 60 hours a week will definitly cause damages.
It would be reckless and stupid to work someone 60 or more hours a week.
Heck based on Fords motor co.'s very risky and expensive experements in labor and economic forces it is stupid and self sabatoging to work anyone more then 20 hours a week.
But. stupid is as stupid does.
No clue what regulations might apply.
(Im not saying Ford Motor Co. ignored thier own studies and experments. A 40 hour work week was the Athem for the labor movement of the early 20th century, and the results can only push investor relations so far so 40 is where Ford stayed)
@@AnonymousAnarchist2I've ran studies at companies for what the OT hours or hours per day cap should be. For most people after 10 hours your productivity tanks and it goes down about half every hour after, so we capped our hours at 10/day or 60/week. Whichever came first.
From an employers perspective I'd guess if you constantly have to pay o.t. it's time to hire another person so it's normal pay and not o.t. I'd you can't afford the normal pay, look at your profit structure as each hour worked should be providing net profit to the company at normal pay rates.
@@craftymaster not everyone's jobs are there to make money. Jobs are there to save money, make money, or save time.
@@HH-le1viliterally fucking false 😂 I see now you just talk out your ass, no wonder the fake profile
Also you can’t have you pay docked for missing time unless it’s an entire week.
Wow. That's great
some states already have a minimum that's higher than this number.
Most of my salaried positions paid less than $1128 a week.
So more inflation.... All they have to do is cut hours!
That explains why my brother’s employer is going to a 68 hour work week for all of its salaried employees on July 1st.
The government needs to get out of peoples and business payment rates and salaries.
I'm paid salary, I don't work overtime, and I'm happy with my pay.
They should do away with salaries unless your in a supervisor position
California is 2 times it's minimum wage.
I was a salaried manager for 10 different restaurants in 2000 to 2012. Since then I have been the recipient of 10 different lawsuits against those companies for working us as hourly employees without overtime.
Should be much more, 2k per week would be a much more sensible number.
This is so sad. If you make half as much as I do you can be denied overtime. This is why I never accept salary positions.
It’s all a trade off. Personally, hourly stresses me out because my boss can cut my hours anytime and I can’t depend on consistent income (where I live, they don’t even have to give early notice of schedule changes). Whereas with salary I know so long as I don’t get fired or laid off, I’ll make at least x amount no matter how much or little I work. The flip side of no overtime is you also get paid the same if you don’t have much work to do or if you work quickly.
It’s still important to calculate how much the salary equates to in hourly though, to check your time is valued how you want.
844/week is 43888/year... how is the threshold for not qualifying for overtime pay, less than 43k in the US. This place sucks.
I make over that amount but I'm "on call" for 1 week every month. Would those hours qualify me for overtime pay?
excuse me but federally mandated $2.13 an hour for restaurant servers is absolute bullshit. It doesn’t cover taxes. I pay $3500 a year out-of-pocket. Which I currently have a credit card. I’m paying $347 a month. Sad thing is my debt will run into next year. I have to come up with that same exact amount of money again all because I can’t get five dollars an hour.
Not only is that a ridiculously low wage for being expected to work whenever called, theres way to many companies creating lazy af employees who use that metric to avoid real work
Meanwhile, the minimum hourly wage at 7.25 an hour for 15 years:
It would be way cheaper to just pay by the hour.
80 hours per week at minimum wage = $600 per week, and your employees probably don't work that long every week.
As an hourly worker, will this make cost of living go up?
Won’t be anywhere near as bad as corporate price gouging has been.
@@RyanStygar appreciate the reply! RUclips wouldn’t let me respond because it’s run by total losers. Enjoy your vids though.