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Uh, yes you can. You can hire someone at $10/hr (minimum wage) salaried at 40hr/week. You just can't have them work unpaid overtime. You can still have them wor

Uh, yes you can. You can hire someone at $10/hr (minimum wage) salaried at 40hr/week. You just can't have them work unpaid overtime. You can still have them work overtime, you'll just need to compensate them for it. If your business can't survive without a ton (if it's only a little here and there, then this shouldn't be much of a hardship?) of unpaid overtime from low-paid employees (less than $20/hr), then that sounds like an issue with your business.

exclusiv 10y ago
Yes I was mistaken on the rules for professional exemptions so I apologize. They really don't apply to my company anyway since I can opt to pay less for certain roles than the minimum salary required for exemptions. Overtime spikes won't be a big deal because all of our employees (any skill-level) rarely go over 40 hours each week. If they do at times, it's not by much. For many positions I think 32 hours / week is better anyway and if there's overtime then it won't matter much at all, because we're not paying over the minimum to get exemptions and then trying to extract 50-60+ hours per week from our employees like many firms do.