Comments on: “An Economic Analysis of Overtime Pay Regulations” https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/04/economic-analysis-overtime-pay-regulations/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:58:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: David C https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/04/economic-analysis-overtime-pay-regulations/comment-page-1/#comment-335195 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 20:38:47 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=58523#comment-335195 It makes sense that you shouldn’t be able to make an end-run around the minimum wage laws by making someone salaried. To reach $23,660 at minimum wage (plus applicable overtime), someone would have to work about 55 hours per week. So I can understand a rule saying that if you make less than that, you need to keep track of the overtime and pay it.

But for someone at minimum wage to reach $50,400, they’d have to work over 102 hours per week. Somehow I doubt there’s an epidemic of companies making employees work over 100 hours per week. (Perhaps some people work that much, but probably not for the same job, unless they’re self-employed.)

For companies paying more than the minimum wage… well, they can just decrease their base pay, pay the overtime, and end up paying their employees the same as they always did.

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