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federal and state laws require most employers to pay overtime the overtime premium is 50 % of the employee s usual hourly wage this means an employee who works overtime must be paid time and a half the employee s usual hourly wage plus the 50 % overtime premium for every overtime hour workedthese laws contain many exceptions so not all employees are entitled to overtimelthough the vast majority of employers must pay overtime not all are required to to figure out whether you must pay overtime first determine whether you are covered by the federal fair labor standards act flsa the federal wage and hour law that sets out the overtime rules
It's even possible that some of these workers make less than the minimum wage per hour.. According to a White House official: In 1975, the Department of Labor set the salary threshold below which all white collar workers are covered by overtime protection at $250 per week (the equivalent of $970 in today's dollars).he Labor Department sets the requirements for overtime pay to these so-called executive or managerial workers. Right now, if you make $455 per week -- or roughly $24,000 a year -- you don't have to receive overtime pay over that threshold.