A proposal from the Labor Department would make an estimated 3.6 million salaried workers newly eligible for overtime pay. It covers workers earning less than $55,000 per year.
This is great for teachers. Overworked, underpaid, and under appreciated!
You’re not wrong, but that only applies to teachers in low cost of living areas. High cost of living teachers start at $55k these days.
I also wonder how it would work. My wife clocks in when she gets to school and clocks out when she leaves, but she still lesson plans and grades papers at home.
she isn’t salaried?
Not a teacher, but I’m salaried and have to log every hour each day. Ours is for contract and project costing purposes though
They meant that the salary cutoff is too low for some teachers to benefit.
Good start but really should be higher.
I would think at lease 80k
Nah, 200k. Then as inflation increases and wages inevitably go up, we’ll be good for at least a couple decades.
I agree. A third of my engineering team were former teachers with bachelor’s/master degrees. They’re amazing people who would be teaching the future.
Except in a few states, teaching high school doesn’t pay. College can pay but it takes years to get there.
My high school science teacher was amazing. He loved teaching. Had to work a second job to pay for his lifestyle which was very basic. He was the teacher of the year many times and still had to work a second job.
If you are salary, the position should pay more. It is often used to work with someone without paying them fairly.
I think wages are often between the worker and the employer but I do think regulations should stop abuse. While fast food places are not highly profitable, they shouldn’t screw people to make a profit.
People should be paid for the work they perform. If someone is hired for a 40hr a week job but it takes 80 hrs a week to do the job the company needs to hire someone else or pay the one employee more. Companies are stealing time.
If it takes 80h/wk then that means half the work just isn’t going to get done. My personal time is more valuable than any amount of money.
It’s a good start. Not perfect, but a start.
Although, this is a great thing, I personally think it should be for everyone. Overtime is overtime no matter how much you make. I guess better than nothing.
Yeah I’m happy for the folks that benefit, and I ain’t complaining that Ive been more fortunate than them financially, but realistically salaried positions have gone from being desirable because it was consistent and favorable to those who can finish their duties in under 40 hours to a way for companies to squeeze more work out of people without having to compensate them for work done in excess of those 40 hours.
I’m probably well in the minority here but I’m curious how true that statement is across the board. Or maybe I just work for a great team, lol. I rarely put in more than about 30-35 a week with exceptions of crunch-time deadlines. I do pull some odd hours because we have a team in India but can just take comp time later in the day or week to offset that. I’m paid (by most standards I know) quite well too.
That said, this is great for the folks that will benefit! I really hope this helps push for a larger reform. Far too many people are getting screwed over by shit jobs, shit hours, shit pay, shit benefits, etc…
I’ve worked in salaried positions that were truly great and I had weeks where I barely put in 20 hours, but more recently I’ve seen a trend in ensuring that 40 hours of work is getting done. Both at jobs I’ve worked and from things I’ve heard from friends at other employers. Glad you have a good team and position though
Gotcha, yeah I don’t have a ton of data which is why I said I was likely in the minority. I do appreciate the insights though as my current position is only guaranteed through 2026 because of our project. Hopefully we get more projects and it continues but it’s good to know that the industry is (unsurprisingly) screwing over more and more salaried employees.
This is just more anecdotal evidence but prior to my current job, my prior two roles were in technical consulting, which when I started was an incredible position for both work/life and to a lesser extent compensation. I left the first one because they were starting to tighten things and demanded a return to office(which we didn’t do before the pandemic) and excessively documented timesheets, down to quarter hours. The next was straight up exploitative. The age of a chill tech job is drawing to a close because the tropes have become known to management
I do appreciate it. I’ll call my role technical consulting too to keep things rather vague. My boss, and his boss, and his boss are VERY in-tune to the work/life balance. And the company as a whole has zero plans to get people into offices as they were very remote-first well before the pandemic. Hell my team is spread out across the US so it’s not like I would be able to see any of them in-person anyway. When I took this position in May I had to make a list of where everyone was located to keep track of timezones, lol.
That’s really close to how my role used to be, glad to know there still roles out there, I’ll have to get to searching again. Happy for you!
I mean I’m paid kick ass money. I also don’t work much but this issue here is the Arby’s manager and not us.
They’ll make them a “manager” and then work them 80 hours a week.
That’s unfair and that’s abusive. Workers should be paid fairly and in most cases 40 hours should be the cap.
Salary should not be an excuse to work someone to death. It should be used to avoid tracking hours and making pay easier
What a bunch of half-assed bullshit, thanks I guess?
That’s like a 66% increase. In what world do you think that’ll be any higher in one swoop?
You guys seriously need to not let perfect be the enemy of good.
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I’d be fine if we could just keep working from home
