Anonymous wrote:Why?! I'm sorry, I know I sound dumb and naieve but I don't understand the benefit. Either that or I'm not taking advantage of the benefit.

You already get the benefits associated with being salaried that hourly workers don't get. Paid vacations, health care, etc. These benefits count towards your total compensation. So you are earning more per hour in total compensation than an hourly worker. This is the reason most workers would prefer to be salaried is because of the advantages of total compensation.

When your company calculates your salary based on 150hrs/month, it could be that the calculation is based on the average number of hours your job takes to complete per month. So some months are below and some above. If that is not true and you are consistently at 172hrs/month, perhaps you should have a conversation with your supervisor. I don't know. My contract doesn't include language like this. In my workplace, when we have an excessively busy month, we are given informal 'comp time' as a perk for our hard work. Between that, my overall compensation as a salaried employee, and the flexibility being salaried allows me, it has never occurred to me to calculate every hour I work.

It doesn't sound like you are happy with the job overall. Are there other things at play here?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. So I worked those hours but I don't get paid for them? I don't accrue extra PTO if I exceed 150hrs/month? That's stupid.

Where do you get those numbers? Are they in your contract? Because if your contract actually says 150 hours/month maybe you would have something.

I have never had a contract that says anything other than X per year payable in 24 equal installments on such and such dates.

That's directly from payroll. "You are a salaried employee paid X based on 150 hrs/month ...."

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. So I worked those hours but I don't get paid for them? I don't accrue extra PTO if I exceed 150hrs/month? That's stupid.

Where do you get those numbers? Are they in your contract? Because if your contract actually says 150 hours/month maybe you would have something.

I have never had a contract that says anything other than X per year payable in 24 equal installments on such and such dates.

Why?! I'm sorry, I know I sound dumb and naieve but I don't understand the benefit. Either that or I'm not taking advantage of the benefit.

Yes. That is what a salaried job does.

I'm paid once a month. I don't leave early, BUT I have noticed several employees do. I'm not super happy about it.

Is this your first salaried position, OP. It's surprising that you don't get this. Perhaps you could ask for your job to be switched to exempt status and lose any benefits you receive. Sheesh

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Anonymous wrote:That's how salaried work goes.

+1

If you're salaried, non-exempt, you don't get paid for extra time. My salary at a firmer job was based on a "full-time" schedule of 40 hours/week. Most of us usually worked more than that, and during busy times--for example, the summer months when I ran a camp--I'd work 60-70 hours a week. You just work till the job is done.

Well that's kind of stupid ... If I'm not accruing extra PTO, nor getting paid for the hours, or working more or less than 37.5 hrs/week I'm basically providing x number of days in free labor?

Yep, that's what it means to be a salaried employee. The business assumes that the job will take x number of hours. If it takes x+y, that's just the way it goes. But sometimes, you might be able to swap the time you stay late for leaving early on another day--at my previous office, we called that "CoMo time" rather than "time off."

And sometimes, that's just the way it crumbles.

How often are you paid? Every 2 weeks, once a month, 1st and 15th?
I'm salaried and paid every 2 weeks. There are 2 months during the calendar year (2 months with 5 weeks) when we get 3 pay checks that month versus only 2 for the remaining 10 months. We earn xx hours of leave per paycheck, so it all kind of works out.
The benefit of being salaried is that you (in theory) can leave a little leave early on days that are light without using leave to balance out the days that end up being longer.

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. So I worked those hours but I don't get paid for them? I don't accrue extra PTO if I exceed 150hrs/month? That's stupid.

Some employers will give extra PTO for overtime on big projects - I know I've earned extra hours in the past around conferences, for example. But unless there's something in your contract about getting extra PTO when your hours go over a certain point, you aren't owed them. Salaried employees frequently go over 40 hours a week in many, many offices, OP - that's just how it goes.

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Anonymous wrote:That's how salaried work goes.

+1

If you're salaried, non-exempt, you don't get paid for extra time. My salary at a firmer job was based on a "full-time" schedule of 40 hours/week. Most of us usually worked more than that, and during busy times--for example, the summer months when I ran a camp--I'd work 60-70 hours a week. You just work till the job is done.

Well that's kind of stupid ... If I'm not accruing extra PTO, nor getting paid for the hours, or working more or less than 37.5 hrs/week I'm basically providing x number of days in free labor?

Anonymous wrote:That's how salaried work goes.

+1

If you're salaried, non-exempt, you don't get paid for extra time. My salary at a firmer job was based on a "full-time" schedule of 40 hours/week. Most of us usually worked more than that, and during busy times--for example, the summer months when I ran a camp--I'd work 60-70 hours a week. You just work till the job is done.

I don't get it. So I worked those hours but I don't get paid for them? I don't accrue extra PTO if I exceed 150hrs/month? That's stupid.

That's how salaried work goes.

I'm a salaried worker. My pay is based on 7.5 hrs/day, 5 days/week, 150hrs/month.

There's months that exceed 150hrs. For example, March I had 172.5 hrs. Except I wasn't paid for the additional time. I didn't bank extra time. My PTO accruement still stands at 637hrs (I get 17 days/year per company policy).

Is there something I'm missing here? I want to email payroll but I feel stupid like I'm missing something.