What factors determine whether an employee is salaried overtime eligible or not?
Generally, under the FLSA, employees who work over 40-hours in a workweek are overtime eligible unless their primary job duties fall within one of the four main categories of exemption available under the law: Executive, Administrative, Professional, and Outside Sales. The determination as to whether an employee’s job duties fall within one of the exempt categories is not always clear. Minimally, to be exempt from overtime the employee, typically, must be paid at least $455 per week and spend a significant portion of time performing job duties described below. An Executive category employee’s primary duty is the management of a department or subdivision in which the employee is employed; who regularly supervises or directs the work of two or more employees; and who has the authority to hire or fire employees or whose recommendations are given significant weight in employment decisions. An Administrative category employee primarily performs office or non-manual work directly related to
