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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very common to set total weekly wage for fixed number of hours. Work backward from that to regular wage and OT wage. Specify these in contract and/or payroll service (or excel spreadsheet used to calculate pay, whatever).  Extra OT hours paid at OT rate. Nothing illegal about this. 
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I think there's confusion in this thread about the way people TALK about pay and what they pay actually IS.

You can discuss pay in terms of the average wage - "I'll pay you X per week for Y hours, which averages to Z." However, Z is not the hourly wage. The base rate per hour (when not performing overtime) is the hourly wage; the total amount brought home each week is a function of the hours worked and the hourly wage.

It's really important to make this distinction when one is negotiating pay or discussing the "market rate." It also makes a very real practical difference: what happens if you change the number of hours worked per week from 50 to 40? From 50 to 60? Thinking in terms of "I make X per week at an average rate of such-and-such" is not helpful.[/quote]

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