Human Resource Blog

Hourly Guidelines for salaried management

Are there any specific guidelines and where would I find them on how many hours salaried managers are required to work in a single payroll period ? If that employee works more than said given hours how to compensate

No. There are no limits to the number of hours that a salaried exempt employee can be required to work without extra compensation. Or as one of our favorite state department of labor websites puts it, they are limited to 168 hours per payroll week. That is 24 hours x 7 days per week = 168 hours.

As an employer, you can require an exempt (salaried) employee to work 80 or 120 hours per week, every week, or more. You can discipline or terminate any exempt employee who does not meet this expectation. An exempt employee is never entitled to overtime. (Note that some salaried employees may not be exempt.)

A few states set limits on hour many hours an employer can require an hourly employee to work, or can require someone who engages in manual labor to work. But even in those states, the limits do not apply to exempt employees.