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How To Figure Overtime Pay When a Worker Has Two Rates of Pay
Generally, for nonexempt employees, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires overtime pay at a rate of not less than one and one-half times an employee’s regular rate of pay after 40 hours of work in a workweek. This is pretty easy to calculate when a worker receives the same rate of pay for all work, but what do you do when a worker has two rates of pay? Or is paid a portion of pay is hourly per hours worked and a portion of pay is piece work?
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