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Are All Employees Entitled To Overtime Pay?

Q : Are all employees entitled to overtime pay?

A : No. There are several categories of workers who are exempt from the overtime requirements. The most common employee exemptions are:

  • executive, administrative and professional employees
  • retail commission salespeople whose regular rate of pay is more than one and a half time the minimum rate and more than half of their wages comes from commissions;
  • taxicab drivers
  • computer system analyst, computer programmer or software engineers who are paid at least $27.63 an hour.

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