My job assigned me to travel, I had previously had a job in the office. I did not get a salary raise or any kind of benefits. Air tickets had to be the cheapest, got per diem of $45 per day and hotel at holiday inn paid for.

The company had a very high divorce rate

I'm the pp - I travelled 4-5 days a week for 9 years. Now I travel 5-6 times a year.
It is part of my job, consulting, and you are aware of it when you take the job.

Not paid extra, but salary is high in part because of the travel requirement. Company pays for all travel expenses.

No extra pay, but you should get a per Diem or reimbursed for all expenses. If you get a per Diem, it will be an amount like $40 or $65 a day. It varies by location. I get less when I go to rural LA or Albuquerque than when I go to Boston or NYC. You are expected to use that money for meals and incidentals - like buying a toothbrush you forgot.

Things you charge in that are NOT part of your per Diem are - flights, hotel, rental car, taxi or transport to/from airport, gas for the rental car, Internet on the plane/hotel if it is used for work, airline baggage fees

Part of your per Diem unless you take clients out for meals - meals, drinks, dry cleaning, toiletries, room service,
Pay per view movies, upgrades on the plane, long distance phone calls, first class lounge at airport,
Tips to bell hops and curb side check in.

If you take your clients out for meals, you are expected to reduce your per Diem that day since that meal was paid for and you can't double dip.

Reimbursements and per diems are not taxed unless you become compensatory. Compensatory doesn't happen unless you are traveling to the same location more than 50% of your work hours for over a year - like a consultant who flies to the same office M-Th/F.

Most people get to keep their miles / hotel points.
Those nearly free vacations are your "extra compensation".

Anonymous wrote:Uh, no extra pay. But most places will be flexible with comp time during non travel and allow occasional weekend stay overs. Plus you can generally expense somewhat limitless alcohol and other meals.

Not if your work it tied to the government. No expensing of alcohol for us, and it's a set per diem for meals. Exceed that, and it comes out of your pocket.

I do a lot of international travel for my company, a very large defense contractor. No, you don't get paid extra, nor do you get extra time off. It's part of your job, and part of what you get paid for.

No but in my office, we are all flexible about giving ourselves "comp time" the next day if it's a red eye etc.

Uh, no extra pay. But most places will be flexible with comp time during non travel and allow occasional weekend stay overs. Plus you can generally expense somewhat limitless alcohol and other meals.

Generally no, you will not be paid extra. They should fly you home every weekend or possibly give you the option to fly someone to visit you for the weekend. My firm recently started to pay extra (% of income) to "road warriors". That is, people who do extensive travel that is outside of their expected/normal job obligations. This only started about two years ago.

Of course you don't get overtime. This is considered part of the job. I take some comp time. It sounds like you are annoyed that your company wants you to travel more that you want to.

Occasionally you will get comp time -- time off if you are flying all night. But that's at the discretion of your employer.

You do not get paid extra, exempt means that you are exempt from Ot. Some companies will even make you travel on your own time. You should get expenses covered...hotel, rental, and a perdeim for food.

No pay for overtime. Some places give you a per diem for incidentals.

Anonymous wrote:Can you please explain how this works if you are salaried. Are you supposed be paid anything for overtime? Considering the fact that you will be taken away from your family more hours, is it typical for a company to send you to see fly to clients 3-4x a month with no extra compensation? Assuming you originally agreed to ocasional travel.

if your exempt (which is what you are), no you will not be paid for OT.

in industries like strategy/management consulting you will fly out monday morning or sunday night, spend 4 days at the client site, and fly back thursday night. and then do that again next week...and the week after....for as long as the engagement is.

what industry are you in?

Can you please explain how this works if you are salaried. Are you supposed be paid anything for overtime? Considering the fact that you will be taken away from your family more hours, is it typical for a company to send you to see fly to clients 3-4x a month with no extra compensation? Assuming you originally agreed to ocasional travel.