The proposed rule would lift the salary threshold for overtime pay from $35,568 to $55,000.

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    1 year ago

    Salary threshold? I’m salaried. I don’t get overtime. Neither do a lot of other salaried people.

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      2x minimum wage for a 40 hour work week is the salary threshold. If you make less your employer is breaking the law. In California the salary threshold is currently $64,480.

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        I’m bad at math, but I’m pretty sure I make more than that. I live in Indiana. Minimum wage is sickeningly low. $7.25/hr.

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          That’s federal minimum wage. So it’s the $35,568 from the article which Biden is trying to raise to $55,000.

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          I believe that if you make below that threshold as a salaried employee and do not receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 per week, then your employer may be violating a rule.

          Wage theft is the largest category of theft in the USA.

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          I’m curious what you do where you are salaried with that low of a pay. Totally understand if you don’t want to share though.

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            Sorry, not willing to share. But let’s just say it’s a very small company owned by a very large company but allowed to be autonomous. I’m the lowest paid person here despite having huge responsibilities too. I’m looking for a new job, but it’s got to be WFH. I’m on a hybrid schedule now, one of the few reasons I’ve stuck with this job for so long, and I don’t want to work in an office at all anymore.