Update: By the way, the chair of the department does not have the best English skills because he is Asian and went to school in Germany, so English is probably his third language. Don't tell me not to go to RPI because of the guy's English skills, lol. Update 2: Ohh no, I know the term candidate is common...
Iowa's overtime minimum wage is $10.88 per hour, one and a half times the regular Iowa minimum wage of $7.25. If you earn more then the Iowa minimum wage rate, you are entitled to at least 1.5 times your regular hourly wage for all overtime worked.
Under current rules, employers can declare certain executive, administrative and professional workers as exempt from overtime pay. However, those rules says that white-collar employees who are paid on a salary basis and earn less than $455 per week ($23,660 annually) automatically qualify for overtime pay.