salary vs. over time

If you're salaried, you are exempt from getting paid for overtime. That doesn't mean you won't work overtime though. A Net Admin job always has overtime.

The game is that they hire you for a certain salary based on a 40 or 35 hour week. But you are expected to put in extra time (for no pay) when things come up - upgrades, unplanned down time, etc.

What I do now is take comp time for extra hours. Some companies will not allow you to do that either though because of the Human Resources Dept. rules. But usually a good boss will work something out with you.

To get paid overtime, you have to have non-exempt status (meaning lower pay).

...overtime compensation to a salaried employee, doesn't mean that they can't pay, or won't pay, if they so choose.

I'm salaried, and I get paid 1.5 overtime for hours over 40 (or comp time, if I prefer).

One federal court in New York has just decided that some classifications of system administrators are entiteld to OT even if they are salaried and the amount of salary you earn is not relevant. Large companies with highly institutionalized compensation structures are most likely to violate this rule by trying to force system admins into a preexisting comp categories. Financial service companies and banks are getting hit for this recently. I know someone who just got enough $ to put a downpayment on a house all in back comp for unpaid overtime. He had this small lawfirm in New York contact the comapny and within a couple of months they wrote him a check. They didn't even put up a fight.

And over here if we get a salery we do not get overtime but some companies do allow you time off in leiu which of course never happens because you're job is too busy.

To me it is a fairly normal pratice not getting any overtime when on a salery and everyone that I know works the same way it all comes with the job.

Actually it is not so much a question of not being entitled to working overtime but one of getting paid for any overtime that you work as the Salery is susposed to cover this.

After all that is why a Salery is greater than the miminum wage but if you are getting minimum wage and it is being called a Salery then you are getting screwed by the company and some do this to save money but what is even funner is that people jump on the bandwagon thinking that they are on a good thing and the term "Salery" means that they are better than the rest of the staff who work for wages.

In my experience the only people to get saleries are managment positions and these positions are considered different to normal wage positions as you are responsible for whatever department you are running and it means a different kind of work where you are susposed to represent your department to the best of you're ability to managmant and at the same time represent the managmant position to you're staff when a decission is made. It is sought of a ballancing act where you are susposed to represent both sides equially and impartially but once a decission is made follow it to the letter.