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If you’re working 70 hours a week and not in finance you are getting screwed.
There is no such thing as overtime when you're not paid on an hourly basis.
Is there anything in your salary contract that defines overtime as an option, or that you’re only expected to ever work X hours a week? If not, I’d honestly say that, no, you’re not getting screwed. Perhaps you’re screwing yourself, but no one else is in the eyes of the law, that I know of. I’m no lawyer, but I’d say...you’re not gonna get OT as a salaried white collar worker.
^not always true, but in advertising and most white collar jobs, it is.
Contracts usually state something about “reasonable” unpaid overtime per week. I guess defining “reasonable” is the grey area here.
It’s attached to title in our industry. I was at CP+B in ‘07 when the labor dept came and interviewed everybody - that was entertaining. Believe the change came in early ‘08 as a national labor law. And I do believe the salary for exempt employees must be $45k minimum.
So there was a new ot law that said that people that got paid less than $46k/yr were eligible for overtime which actually applied to many entry level jobs in the agency world however that law was halted before it could go into affect when the current administration went into office. So the old standard applies and the threshold is 26k or something and I'm pretty sure you make her that. However regardless of overtime if you are consistently (i.e. for more than a month or so straight and not under extreme conditions like a launch or a pitch - meaning your normal day to day workload requires these hrs) working 70hrs a week you should tell your boss to figure out how you can minimize that. If your boss already knows and has done nothing you have a bad boss and should look for other work.
Account coordinators and junior creatives here are salaried with overtime, but associate producers are just salary. We get paid more though, which is likely a reason.
Wish we didn’t have so many stories like this - but feel like 60 - 70 hour work weeks (including weekends) are commonplace.