> I always thought it weird that we have minimum wage levels for hourly workers, but once you're salaried, you work however many hours your employer wants, or y

> I always thought it weird that we have minimum wage levels for hourly workers, but once you're salaried, you work however many hours your employer wants, or you get marginalized or fired. This isn’t actually true in Japan though, and why so many people actually favor all the overwork. If you are salaried, and not on a specific kind of contract (my contract includes up to 45 hours of overwork), all your overwork is paid by the hour, with higher multipliers for late night work. Which is how people effectively double their salary.