Do Salaried Employees Get Overtime?
Yes, many salaried workers are owed overtime. Learn when salaried employees qualify for overtime and how to check your own classification.
A salary does not automatically remove your right to overtime. Whether a salaried employee gets overtime depends on whether they are exempt or non-exempt, and a surprising number of salaried workers are non-exempt.
When salaried workers are owed overtime
If your salary is below $684/week ($35,568/year), you are non-exempt and owed overtime no matter your title. Even above that, if your duties don't meet the executive, administrative or professional tests, you are still non-exempt and entitled to 1.5× pay over 40 hours.
How to check
Use the exempt-salary calculator to test your salary against the federal threshold and your state's. Remember it is only the first half of the test. Your actual duties decide the rest.