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Certain University employees currently earning an exempt salary of less than $844 per week ($43,888 per year) will be impacted by this new rule and may become newly eligible for overtime pay. In 2019, a new employee classification was created, Exempt Paid Hourly, to ensure that the University of Utah complies with Federal regulations. Exempt Paid Hourly employees are employees in job codes exempt from FLSA overtime rule (identified on the job code table as Exempt) who earn less than $844 per week ($43,888 per year) regardless of FTE. These employees will be paid on an hourly basis but will continue to accrue vacation as Exempt Staff. Exempt Paid Hourly employees have to track their time and report it in Kronos or via a punch-clock.
NOTE: Impacted employees and their supervisors will receive an email from HR with more details on June 24, 2024.
If you have any questions about the University's solutions to this new threshold, you can reach out to HR. To find your HR contact, click here.
UHRM determines the exemption status of each position on campus, based on the Department of Labor guidance. All job codes are determined to be Exempt or Non-Exempt based on the duties and responsibilities. The job code table will indicate whether a position is Exempt or Non-Exempt.
If you are in a job code exempt from FLSA overtime rule and earn at least $844 per week ($43,888 per year) across all your exempt job records, you will be Exempt Salaried and are not entitled to overtime under FLSA. Otherwise, your position will be Exempt Paid Hourly.
All employees impacted by the new threshold will be contacted by UHRM. If you have not been contacted by 06/25/2024 and believe that your pay frequency will be changing, please contact HR as soon as possible.
Exempt employees who earn less than $844 per week ($43,888 per year) will be further categorized as Exempt Paid Hourly Staff and will be required to record hours worked. Exempt Paid Hourly employees will be eligible for overtime pay, which is paid at 1.5 times the hourly rate for all hours worked over 40 hours per workweek.
Details about tracking time in Kronos will be sent to all impacted employees on June 24, 2024.
NOTE: Exempt Paid Hourly employees must obtain approval from their supervisors before working overtime (more than 40 hours in a workweek).
Employees who work multiple positions exempt from FLSA overtime on campus will remain salaried as long as the total compensation of all exempt records is greater than or equal to $844 per week ($43,888 per year), regardless of FTE.
Yes, the new salary threshold does not apply to some position types on campus, including:
These positions will remain salaried even if they are below $844 per week ($43,888 per year).