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You got a good long answer, but more simply: An expected level of occasional 40+ hour weeks is often baked into to the salary at a higher level. When I switched

You got a good long answer, but more simply: An expected level of occasional 40+ hour weeks is often baked into to the salary at a higher level. When I switched to a salaried manager position, my new rate of pay was better than my old hourly, including the overtime I used to work. Now I know the check that will come every two weeks is the same, if I can do my work in under 40 hours nobody cares. It is much better for me to focus on my job and not worry about the exact number of hours I work.

hga 10y ago
And having been exempt salaried but working in D.C. for a dozen years where so much is done by government accounting rules, it's a total pain in the posterior to make sure your Official worked hours add up to exactly 40. One of the few nice things about working for Lucent in its dreadful calendar year 2001 was that I could just focus on getting the job done The only time I ever liked doing that was when it was a tool to keep a company owner from cheating the salesmen by charging them too much for the labor we put into building the systems we'd together, almost always, sold to someone (and that company eventually died, you can't keep cheating all your salaried employees and expect to survive, we all walked away with 4-5 figures of bonuses or commissions formally owed to us).