{"id":11328,"date":"2021-06-21T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T17:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=11328"},"modified":"2021-06-21T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T17:22:21","slug":"what-is-an-exempt-employee-and-how-do-you-know-if-you-should-be-paid-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/what-is-an-exempt-employee-and-how-do-you-know-if-you-should-be-paid-overtime\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is an Exempt Employee\u2014and How Do You Know if You Should Be Paid Overtime?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Regina Borsellino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When you\u2019re looking at a job offer or just looking at your paycheck, you might come across the terms \u201cexempt\u201d or \u201cnonexempt\u201d to describe your employment status. But what do these terms mean, and how is your exempt or nonexempt classification decided? Plus, what can you do if you feel that you\u2019ve been misclassified\u2014and should be making overtime for working more than 40 hours a week? Here\u2019s what you need to know about being exempt or nonexempt and how it affects you as an employee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Regina Borsellino When you\u2019re looking at a job offer or just looking at your paycheck, you might come across the terms \u201cexempt\u201d or \u201cnonexempt\u201d to describe your employment status. But what do these terms mean, and how is your exempt or nonexempt classification decided? Plus, what can you do if you feel that you\u2019ve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1436,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1190],"class_list":["post-11328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-job-info-advice","tag-job-info-and-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2016\/03\/The-Muse-logo.png?fit=203%2C118&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79l8e-2WI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11330,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions\/11330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}