Salaried Employees and Comp-Time

[mitchelt]

Do you think a salaried employee should get comp-time?

I don't mean if you just work one extra hour, I mean more like a full day...like working all day on a weekend day?

 

[rudeguy]

depends. Will your employer let you work less than 40 hours for full pay?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Of course they should. I get 2 for 1 working weekends. If I work either Saturday or Sunday I get 2 free paid days off in return. I'd like to work more weekends, in the past 3 years I've only had projects that required 4 weekend days in total.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Of course they should. I get 2 for 1 working weekends. If I work either Saturday or Sunday I get 2 free paid days off in return. I'd like to work more weekends, in the past 3 years I've only had projects that required 4 weekend days in total.

Good luck with that mindset!

 

[nageov3t]

my company's pretty good about it... if I stay more than an hour late, I'll leave early on another day when it's slow, and if something happens where I have to come in on a day off, my boss will let me take another day off.

 

[Engineer]

After being paid overtime (at 1.5 X ) for the last 16 years and losing it 8 months ago, I say yes (especially if they want me to work over). I'm getting it at 1.5 hour off for every extra hour worked (like others have said, not just one hour here and there...but full 1/2 days or full days at a time). If I don't get that, it's "Eight and out the gate".

 

[GeekDrew]

Yes. I'll give the office a free hour of work on occasion, but if I have to come in for an extra 6+ hours, I want to be compensated.

 

[spidey07]

It's normally accepted that if you work a full extra day you are given compensation in some way for it, be it a bonus2x or 3x overtime or time off. If you don't, it's time to find another job.

 

[middlehead]

It's not official policy, but my group lead finds ways to compensate us if we have to do significant off-hour work. It's usually from an on-call weekend, but some of us do big enough projects to earn it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Where I work you get overtime. Even half hour, you put it in. Once it hits 4 hours in that single pay cycle, it's double time and a half. Then there's other rules on if it's on a sunday, etc. I once made 200 bucks to go in the office to reset a password on a sunday. Was pretty sweet.

 

[her209]

If I were compensated appropriately, I wouldn't mind working 50-60 hour weeks.

 

[RedCOMET]

Originally posted by: her209
If I were compensated appropriately, I wouldn't mind working 50-60 hour weeks.

I work hours like that as it is. I feel my compensation is decent enough for the work that is done.

As for the OP, I voted yes. Putting in a lot of extra time for some projects etc over some days or weeks, should earn you a little time off here and there. as long as its not abused, and projects / work are not impacted by people useing this comp time, i think this is great tool to keep people fresh and acting at their peak by giving them a littlee time off here and there.

 

[Bignate603]

I'm salaried and I could do comp time during the week as long as my hours come out to 40 for the week. I usually don't though, I end up putting in about 45 hours a week as it is. I become eligible for overtime at 46 hours and they cut all overtime so that's when I've got to get out.

 

[Descartes]

Yes, absolutely, but how it's handled depends on the organization. I've never been a fan of the formal HR relationship that puts boundaries on the employer/employee in that respect. In a good working relationship, if you work extra you get extra; it's understood, and if it's not then you're being exploited and you need to move. Likewise though, at least for me, if you're that employee that starts talking about "what about my comptime?" right after you're asked to put in a little extra you're not going to leave a very good impression.

 

[Babbles]

I said "no" in that doing so basically undermines the concept of a salaried position. Before I was laid off at my previous employer, we did not formally have comp-time for salaried employees. With that being said, we sort of did so on an informal basis. If I worked late Mon-Thur (nearly all of the time) I may cut out an hour or so early on Friday. If I really balanced it out to make it an even 40 hours then in most cases I wouldn't even have gone in on Friday, but the reason why I worked more than 8 hours a day is because I had shit to do and if I tried to work only 40 hours I wouldn't have gotten much done.

It does suck on one hand, but that is why salaried people typically get paid more than their hourly counterpart.

 

[spikespiegal]

if you're that employee that starts talking about "what about my comptime?" right after you're asked to put in a little extra you're not going to leave a very good impression.

You'll also move yourself in the +Y axis on the layoff list.

You guys working salary 40 hours and able to comp and hours over are lucky, or working for companies that just don't have any additional work.

The average 40 hour salary college degreed worker I know works about 45 hours real-time and doesn't dare whine about it. If you have a dept manager on your side willing to stick to 40 hous salary weeks, *he's* likely on the short list.

I won't bring up school teachers.

 

[Pepsei]

my boss is cool... i'm salaried with overtime, and my boss lets me off for 1/2 day here and there on him.

i feel bad for him since my overtime last year makes my total compensation more than his. but this year, the upper management is going to start questioning my excess overtime, so i have to cut back, or actually take off days during the week to do weekend work.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: mitchelt
Do you think a salaried employee should get comp-time?

I don't mean if you just work one extra hour, I mean more like a full day...like working all day on a weekend day?

Do I think we should? Considering I worked the last four weekends, 8-2am every day (and all night at one point) and am on my work computer now, yes. However, it is my prerogative to find a job that would compensate me in that fashion and I still find it more beneficial to be in the job I am in, which means my employer is making the wisest compensation choice and the one most likely to keep them profitable and in business. If their comp strategy produced lower-quality employees they would have better reason to change. It's definitely in my best interest to have my employer continue to succeed.

 

[duragezic]

I don't get comp time but I do get straight time overtime for any hours past 45 hours per week. I think that is a fair compromise. As a salary worker, it is expected you need to put in extra hours at times. On the other hand, putting in a significant amount of hours past 40 hrs, it is nice to get compensated.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: mitchelt
Do you think a salaried employee should get comp-time?

I don't mean if you just work one extra hour, I mean more like a full day...like working all day on a weekend day?

Strictly, it is a gimme. One summer, I worked 12 hour days, six days a week for three and a half months. When I got back to the office my manager said that I deserved five comp days for my efforts. Ever since I take the comp days I think I deserve.

 

[Zugzwang152]

No direct compensation, however we can take off to run errands and such during the day if we need to, and often times can work from home to make up signficant extra time spent. Given that flexibility I don't mind putting in the extra time when it's needed.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
No direct compensation, however we can take off to run errands and such during the day if we need to, and often times can work from home to make up signficant extra time spent. Given that flexibility I don't mind putting in the extra time when it's needed.

That's how it should work. You're paid to do a job, and the hours don't matter. Salaried people should be able to come and go as they please as long as the work gets done. That might be 48 hours one week, and 30 the next. The actual amount isn't important. If you don't feel your pay is adequate, that's another matter entirely.

 

[Jumpem]

I am salaried, but any overtime can be saved as comp time or extra pay.

 

[IronWing]

Yes. Salaried workers or "exempt" workers are often misclassified as such by their employers in order to skirt overtime pay requirements. Not only should many salaried workers be receiving comp time, they should be getting overtime pay for their efforts. Workers confuse professionalism in the conduct of their jobs with "professional" classification wrt exempt vs non-exempt status wrt to overtime regulations and so allow pride in their work to screw themselves out of overtime pay by not seeking non-exempt status when it is warranted and would be beneficial to the worker.

 

[Gibson486]

nope....I get salary plus overtime