This is the math allowed for a salaried non exempt employee of an employer based in California (2017-2019). Personal knowledge as I compared this against my paychecks to create this. (I rounded the taxes to 20% as I live in Texas and we do not have state employment tax)
My contract pay, based on the California law for time and a half of non exempt salaried employees is broken down in the math above. Based on this I missed out on at minimum $2000-3000 working mandatory overtime. Now some might argue your salaried and you are getting paid over time, be grateful, sure, I was. Which is why I’m not posting this until 5 years after I left.
But, let me remind people, there was cost of living expenses. To retain a residence 10 miles away from my job (location was imperative so that if a coworker called out you could get there in the requested 30 minute window), I was loosing an entire 2-week paycheck every month for a 2 bedroom 950ft apartment. That did not include utilities, mandatory 1 million dollar rental insurance, storage for the rest of my personal affects from my previous 3 bedroom house in Iowa.
For anyone who does not believe me or questions the validity of this, below you can find my schedule for the time period I worked a full 17 days straight and my events I had to help others with along with my travel to visit family post my lack of HOLIDAY for the year.
This experience is why if a coworker asks how much I get paid, I do not hold back. Because my coworker pointed out the fact it was not the traditional time and a half you get most places (where your hours rate as a non salaried remains a static rate), where the company I worked for was dividing my salary for biweekly by the number of HOURS I worked to gather the amount I was to be getting.
And yes, this was the trigger for me to terminate my part time employment with Zales. I love that role and my coworkers, but doing 19 days of work in a row, was too much.
