"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
>
> At 07:14 15-11-2002 -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>
> >I don't get overtime, Jeroen, so that doesn't help much :-)
>
> Wow, your salary is *that* high? It is pretty much standard over here that
> in certain jobs (typically in higher management) you do not get paid
> overtime, but those people then have monthly salaries that are written in
> *five* digits.
A lot of jobs are salaried and not hourly. I don't know how it is
across the board, but in Texas, to have a salaried job, it needs to be
either managerial or require a degree (or special skills equivalent to
having a degree); I think there's one other criteria that could be met
instead, but I don't remember what it is. You *could* have someone work
hourly on a job that wasn't managerial but required a degree, but
depending on the demands of the job, it works out more cheaply in the
long run to just put the person on salary. Anyone working hourly that
works past 40 hours gets paid 1.5 times the hourly rate for the extra
hours, and anyone working hourly that works past 60 hours gets double
pay. At least, that's how it was last time I looked. (I never had to
worry about figuring out time past 60 hours when I was writing
paychecks, because nobody worked more than 56 hours in any given week.)
The longest hours I ever worked personally were at an hourly job, at
most 55 hours/week (and that was just Monday through Friday, never
worked weekends), I ate at Luby's for dinner a lot (the calculation
would be, will the take-home part of my overtime pay cover dinner
there? Yes? Then let's do that, rather than make anyone cook), I had a
social life on the weekends, and I didn't manage to finish a single
novel during that period. It didn't last long, though. :)
Julia
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