Some employees enjoy working overtime because it will bring them more money. Under the Fair Labor and Standards Act rules, overtime pay must be paid to employees who work more than 40 hours at the rate of time and a half. However, there are some exemptions, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Those exemptions, according to the agency’s website include:

• The employee must be compensated on a salary basis (as defined in the regulations) at a rate not less than $455 per week;
• The employee’s primary duty must be managing the enterprise, or managing a customarily recognized department or subdivision of the enterprise;
• The employee must customarily and regularly direct the work of at least two or more other full-time employees or their equivalent; and
• The employee must have the authority to hire or fire other employees, or the employee’s suggestions and recommendations as to the hiring, firing, advancement, promotion or any other change of status of other employees must be given particular weight.