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Opinions on working over 40 hours a week when you’re a salary employee? IMO, if I’m not getting paid hourly/overtime don’t expect me to live my life behind my desktop.

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I view my salary as compensation for my work, not my time clocked. I’m inefficient, I take on too much, and therefore, I honor my word and finish what I agree too (within reason), and sometimes that takes 60-70 hours, sometimes that takes 30. While it could be partly due to pressure from my employer, it’s more of a me issue than anything else

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I’ve been unofficially working like this as well. Some weeks 25-30 hours, some weeks if on a super busy project 50+ past 6 months though I’ve been averaging 40’s which has been great.

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Hourly employees are paid for the hours they work. Salaried employees are paid for a job they need to do. If, as a salaried employee, the job you are being asked to do takes more hours than you are comfortable with, then the job isn’t for you.

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I don’t disagree entirely, but I think it needs to be clear up front. If an employer makes it seem like a job will have good wlb and suddenly they expect 80 hours a week, that’s not cool.

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For $50K a year, absolutely correct. For $500K a year, the OT is built into the number.

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Yes! To add context I make mid-60s.

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I’m not working over 45 hours a week. If you want me to pay me overtime and no consulting is not for me but it’s weird y’all have developed these standards that wreck your mental health.

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Why did you pick 40 as your threshold? Why not 15? Or 65?

If you’re okay with making the average salary in 2019, I think 40 hours per week is fair.

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When I’m staffed on a project, I’m typically between 40-45 hours a week. For the past several months I’ve been on 2 (one of them is just a few hours a week) so that’s been closer to 55-60 hours in billable hours; the internal stuff can add another 5 or 10 to it, depending on what’s going on. I don’t care for those kind of hours and am rolling off of that smaller project at the end of this week.

I don’t really mind even the 45-50 hour weeks because I know it’ll balance out when I’m not staffed or projects have a lull. We’re not really in a profession where there’s a hard stop at 40 hours each and every week.

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