[DIYSteve]

Mike, you're an engineer, exempt worker. No brainer.

[Yana]

[Backpacker Joe]

Ive been doing some work in Rhode Island. Time and a half after 40, double time on Sundays.

[DIYSteve]

[iron]

i'm hourly. accrued time in excess of 2080 hrs/yr is paid out or can be used as comp time (at a 1.0x rate).

[Ringangleclaw]

If the OP is in fact being paid hourly, and not a salary that appears pro rata as hourly, then he should be getting OT at 1.5 his hourly rate. Many salary pay stubs show a pro rated number of hours, and this could confuse people.

[Randito]

The only person I know that ever actually gets to actually use "comp time" is a tax accountant. She works double time during peak "tax season" and takes three months off after the extended deadline for filing.

[Ringangleclaw]

A salaried employee paid bi-monthly will often have a pay stub tha shows 87 hours in that pay period.

[Steve]

I'm a contract worker now. I used to be direct, salaried engineer at Boeing, but as another contractor I know said, "When I first started in this industry I though I wanted a career. After a while I realized all I wanted was a paycheck." I get paid hourly and get 1.5X OT. I have no desire to go back. As another 30+ year contractor said, "Where else can you make this much money and have no responsibility?" The downside to making $200k is often having to work in hell hole locations; I'm currently in Savannah, GA.

[Bedivere]

I like my union OT rules. More than 8 up to 10 hours in one day is 1.5X, 10+ hours in any one day is 2x. Saturdays are 1.5x for the first 8 then 2X thereafter. Sundays and holidays are 2X. Off-hours shifts (like swing or graveyard) are paid a shift differential, I just don't know exactly what it is. Exceptions are made for jobs that are scheduled as 4x10 shifts. Then it's 1X for the first ten hours of a scheduled workday and 2X thereafter. For the remaining weekday and Saturday it's 1.5X for the first 8 then 2X after ten and 2X on Sundays. I used to love working 4x10s. I wish they'd schedule more jobs like that but it seems only road crews get to do that and working a road crew kind of sucks.

[iron]

[iron]

finally got my hands on my copy of my employee agreement:

[AR]

"having to work in hell hole locations; I'm currently in Savannah, GA." Yeah, but don't they have peaches n' beaches? "I imagine there are plenty of employment lawyers out there who would give you a free initial consult that might have better info than a hiking forum." Yes, and 15.7 seconds after this "lawyer" contacts your H.R. Department you'll be thrown on the street with a box of your desk stuff. H.R. in Washington State does not have to provide any information on termination. And should you really piss them off, they can tell the State not to give you unemployment pay.

[Ringangleclaw]

[Steve]

I've been told there aren't as many peach orchards as there used to be, but growing pecans is popular around here. peach cobbler is a popular dessert here, though. Oddly enough there are at least three Jamaican BBQ places not far from me and it is reallllly good. The area sucks for decent beer. I'm not really a beach person unless there is something to see. I like going to the peninsula beaches at extreme low tide and I like snorkeling Poipu beach. But laying around on a beach? Never.