Overtime is paid at 1.5 times the regular rate after 40 hours in a week.
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Applies to
employees engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce
Exceptions
Category
employees employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity (including academic administrative personnel or teachers in elementary or secondary schools)
Condition
Section 13(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act provides an exemption from the Act's minimum wage and overtime requirements (29 CFR 541.0(a)); salary requirements in 29 CFR part 541 subpart G apply
Category
outside sales employees
Condition
exempt from minimum wage and overtime requirements under section 13(a)(1) of the Act (29 CFR 541.0(a), 541.500)
Category
computer systems analysts, computer programmers, software engineers, and other similarly skilled computer employees
Condition
Section 13(a)(17) of the Act provides an exemption from the minimum wage and overtime requirements (29 CFR 541.0(a)); see also 29 CFR 541.400
Category
employees of a retail or service establishment paid mainly by commission
Condition
if (1) the regular rate of pay of such employee is in excess of one and one-half times the minimum hourly rate applicable to him under section 206, and (2) more than half his compensation for a representative period (not less than one month) represents commissions on goods or services (29 U.S.C. 207(i))
Category
employees receiving remedial education
Condition
not more than 10 hours in the aggregate in any workweek in excess of the maximum workweek without overtime pay, if the employee is receiving remedial education meeting 29 U.S.C. 207(q)
Category
employees of street, suburban or interurban electric railway, or local trolley or motorbus carrier employers in charter activities
Condition
hours employed in charter activities are excluded from the hours to which the overtime rate applies, if by prior agreement and not part of regular employment (29 U.S.C. 207(n))
no employer shall employ any of his employees who in any workweek is engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or is employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, for a workweek longer than forty hours unless such employee receives compensation for his employment in excess of the hours above specified at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed. … No employer shall be deemed to have violated subsection (a) by employing any employee of a retail or service establishment for a workweek in excess of the applicable workweek specified therein, if (1) the regular rate of pay of such employee is in excess of one and one-half times the minimum hourly rate applicable to him under section 206 of this title, and (2) more than half his compensation for a representative period (not less than one month) represents commissions on goods or services. … Any employer may employ any employee for a period or periods of not more than 10 hours in the aggregate in any workweek in excess of the maximum workweek specified in subsection (a) without paying the compensation for overtime employment prescribed in such subsection, if during such period or periods the employee is receiving remedial education that is— … in determining the hours of employment of such an employee to which the rate prescribed by subsection (a) applies there shall be excluded the hours such employee was employed in charter activities by such employer if (1) the employee's employment in such activities was pursuant to an agreement or understanding with his employer arrived at before engaging in such employment, and (2) if employment in such activities is not part of such employee's regular employment. … No employer engaged in the operation of a hospital or an establishment which is an institution primarily engaged in the care of the sick, the aged, or the mentally ill or defective who reside on the premises shall be deemed to have violated subsection (a) if, pursuant to an agreement or understanding arrived at between the employer and the employee before performance of the work, a work period of fourteen consecutive days is accepted in lieu of the workweek of seven consecutive days for purposes of overtime computation and if, for his employment in excess of eight hours in any workday and in excess of eighty hours in such fourteen-day period, the employee receives compensation at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed. … No public agency shall be deemed to have violated subsection (a) with respect to the employment of any employee in fire protection activities or any employee in law enforcement activities (including security personnel in correctional institutions) if— … in a work period of 28 consecutive days the employee receives for tours of duty which in the aggregate exceed the lesser of (A) 216 hours, or (B) the average number of hours (as determined by the Secretary pursuant to section 6(c)(3) of the Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1974) in tours of duty of employees engaged in such activities in work periods of 28 consecutive days in calendar year 1975 … No employer shall be deemed to have violated subsection (a) by employing any employee for a workweek in excess of that specified in such subsection without paying the compensation for overtime employment prescribed therein if such employee is so employed— … and if such employee receives compensation for employment in excess of twelve hours in any workday, or for employment in excess of fifty-six hours in any workweek, as the case may be, at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed. … For a period or periods of not more than fourteen workweeks in the aggregate in any calendar year, any employer may employ any employee for a workweek in excess of that specified in subsection (a) without paying the compensation for overtime employment prescribed in such subsection, if such employee— … such employment by such employer which is in excess of ten hours in any workday, and … such employment by such employer which is in excess of forty-eight hours in any workweek,
Overtime is paid at 1.5 times the regular rate after 40 hours in a week or 8 hours in a day.
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Basis
in determining whether an employee has worked more than 40 hours a week, the number of hours worked shall be determined without including hours that are worked in excess of eight hours in a day because the employee has or will be separately awarded overtime compensation based on those hours
Applies to
employees engaged in commerce or other business, or in the production of goods or materials in the state
Exceptions
Category
individuals employed in agriculture
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(1): the provisions of AS 23.10.050 - 23.10.150 do not apply to an individual employed in agriculture
Category
fishing and aquatic harvesting workers
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(2): an individual employed in the catching, trapping, cultivating, farming, netting, or taking of any kind of fish, shellfish, or other aquatic forms of animal and vegetable life
Category
shrimp handpickers
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(3): an individual employed in the handpicking of shrimp
Category
domestic service workers
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(4): an individual employed in domestic service, including a babysitter, in or about a private home
Category
government employees
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(5): an individual employed by the United States or by the state or a political subdivision of the state, except as provided in AS 23.10.065(b), including prisoners not on furlough detained or confined in prison facilities
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Overtime is paid at 1.5 times the regular rate after 40 hours in a week.
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Overtime is paid at 1.5 times the regular rate after 40 hours in a week or 8 hours in a day.
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Alternative schemes
Group
employers engaged in the operation of a hospital or an establishment primarily engaged in the care of the sick, the aged, or the mentally ill or defective who reside on the premises
Condition
pursuant to an agreement or understanding arrived at between the employer and the employee before performance of the work, a work period of fourteen consecutive days is accepted in lieu of the workweek of seven consecutive days (29 U.S.C. 207(j))
Period days
14
Threshold daily hours
8
Threshold period hours
80
Group
public agency employees in fire protection activities or law enforcement activities (including security personnel in correctional institutions)
Condition
in a work period of 28 consecutive days, tours of duty which in the aggregate exceed the lesser of (A) 216 hours, or (B) the average number of hours determined by the Secretary for calendar year 1975; shorter work periods of at least 7 days use the same ratio (29 U.S.C. 207(k))
Period days
28
Group
employees employed under collective bargaining agreements described in 29 U.S.C. 207(b)(1) or (2), or by independently owned local petroleum distribution enterprises described in 207(b)(3)
Condition
if such employee receives compensation for employment in excess of twelve hours in any workday, or for employment in excess of fifty-six hours in any workweek, as the case may be, at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate (29 U.S.C. 207(b)); overtime required for hours in excess of the daily or weekly maximum, whichever number of hours is greater (29 CFR 778.602)
Period days
7
Threshold daily hours
12
Threshold period hours
56
Group
employees employed in auction sale, buying, handling, stripping, sorting, grading, packing or storing of specified types of green leaf or cigar leaf tobacco
Condition
For a period or periods of not more than fourteen workweeks in the aggregate in any calendar year (29 U.S.C. 207(m)); an employer using this exemption is not eligible for any other exemption under section 207
The Department’s regulations require executive, administrative, and professional employees to be paid at least a minimum salary amount to be exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage and overtime requirements under section 13(a)(1).
Section 13(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended, provides an exemption from the Act's minimum wage and overtime requirements for any employee employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity (including any employee employed in the capacity of academic administrative personnel or teacher in elementary or secondary schools), or in the capacity of an outside sales employee … Section 13(a)(17) of the Act provides an exemption from the minimum wage and overtime requirements for computer systems analysts, computer programmers, software engineers, and other similarly skilled computer employees.
he must be paid at such overtime rate for all hours worked in the workweek in excess of the applicable daily maximum or in excess of the applicable weekly maximum, whichever number of hours is greater.
AS 23.10.055(a)(6): an individual engaged in the nonprofit activities of a nonprofit religious, charitable, cemetery, or educational organization or other nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist, and where services are on a voluntary basis
Category
newspaper delivery employees
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(7): an employee engaged in the delivery of newspapers to the consumer
Category
watchmen or caretakers
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(8): an individual employed solely as a watchman or caretaker of a plant or property that is not in productive use for a period of four months or more
Category
executive, administrative, or professional employees
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(9)(A): an individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity; must be compensated on a salary or fee basis at not less than two times the state minimum wage for the first 40 hours each week (AS 23.10.055(b))
Category
outside salesmen and straight commission salesmen
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(9)(B): an individual employed in the capacity of an outside salesman or a salesman who is employed on a straight commission basis
Category
computer professionals
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(9)(C): an individual employed as a computer systems analyst, computer programmer, software engineer, or other similarly skilled worker
Category
mineral prospectors
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(10): an individual employed in the search for placer or hard rock minerals
Category
part-time minors
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(11): an individual under 18 years of age employed on a part-time basis not more than 30 hours in a week
Category
residential house parents
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(12): employment by a nonprofit educational or child care facility to serve as a parent of children while the children are in residence at the facility, subject to residence and minimum annual compensation conditions
Category
taxicab drivers
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(13): an individual who drives a taxicab, compensated exclusively by customers, under flat-rate written contracts placing no restrictions on hours or areas
Category
licensed guides
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(14): a person who holds a license under AS 08.54 and who is employed by a registered guide-outfitter or master guide-outfitter, for the first 60 workdays in a calendar year
Category
temporary assistance work activity participants
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(15): an individual engaged in activities for a nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not exist and services are rendered under a work activity requirement of AS 47.27
Category
volunteer emergency medical, fire, and ski patrol workers
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(16): an individual who provides emergency medical services, serves with a full-time fire department, or provides ski patrol services only on a voluntary basis
Category
University of Alaska practicum students
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(17): a student participating in a University of Alaska practicum described under AS 14.40.065
Category
motor vehicle dealer service, finance, and sales employees
Condition
AS 23.10.055(a)(18): an individual who is employed by a motor vehicle dealer and whose primary duty is to receive service requests, arrange financing, or solicit, sell, lease, or exchange motor vehicles
Category
employees of small employers
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(1): an employee employed by an employer employing fewer than four employees in the regular course of business
Category
agricultural commodity and dairy processing employees
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(2): an employee employed in handling, packing, storing, pasteurizing, drying, preparing in their raw or natural state, or canning agricultural or horticultural commodities for market, or in making cheese or butter or other dairy products
Category
small mining operation employees
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(3): an employee of an employer engaged in small mining operations where not more than 12 employees are employed if the employee is employed not in excess of 12 hours a day or 56 hours a week during not more than 14 workweeks in the aggregate in a calendar year during the mining season
Category
employees engaged in agriculture
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(4): an employee engaged in agriculture
Category
small newspaper employees
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(5): an employee employed in connection with the publication of a weekly, semiweekly, or daily newspaper with a circulation of less than 1,000
Category
switchboard operators
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(6): a switchboard operator employed in a public telephone exchange that has fewer than 750 stations
Category
telephone or radio message handlers
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(7): an employee in an otherwise exempted employment or proprietor in a retail or service establishment handling telephone or radio messages under an agency or contract arrangement where communications revenue does not exceed $500 a month
Category
seamen
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(8): an employee employed as a seaman
Category
small forestry and lumbering employees
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(9): forestry and logging employees if the number of employees employed by the employer in the forestry or lumbering operations does not exceed 12
Category
outside buyers of poultry, eggs, cream, or milk
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(10): an individual employed as an outside buyer of poultry, eggs, cream, or milk in their raw or natural state
Category
casual employees
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(11): casual employees as may be liberally defined by regulations of the commissioner
Category
hospital employees providing medical services
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(12): an employee of a hospital whose employment includes the provision of medical services
Category
employees under collective bargaining flexible work hour plans
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(13): work performed by an employee under a flexible work hour plan if the plan is included as part of a collective bargaining agreement
Category
line haul truck drivers
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(15): for a trip that exceeds 100 road miles one way if the compensation system includes overtime pay for work in excess of 40 hours a week or more than eight hours a day and requires a rate of pay comparable to the rate required by this section
Category
community health aides
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(16): an individual employed as a community health aide by a local or regional health organization as defined in AS 18.28.100
Category
air carrier employees trading shifts
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(18): work performed by an employee of an air carrier subject to the Railway Labor Act under a voluntary written agreement addressing the trading of work shifts among employees, meeting the listed conditions
Category
air carrier flight crew
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(19): work performed by a flight crew member (pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer, and flight attendants) employed by an air carrier subject to 45 U.S.C. 181 - 188
Multiplier
1.5
Alternative schemes
Group
employees under a voluntary flexible work hour plan
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(14): the employee and the employer have signed a written agreement filed with the department and the department has issued a certificate approving the plan that states the work is for 40 hours a week and not more than 10 hours a day; for work over 40 hours a week or 10 hours a day, compensation at the rate of one and one-half times the regular rate of pay shall be paid
Period days
7
Threshold daily hours
10
Threshold period hours
40
Group
flat-rate automobile mechanics
Condition
AS 23.10.060(d)(17): mechanic employed as a flat-rate mechanic by a nonmanufacturing establishment selling or servicing motor vehicles under a signed written agreement; compensated for hours in excess of eight hours a day or 40 hours a week at one and one-half times the rate described in (C) (greater of 75 percent of the flat hourly rate or twice the state minimum wage); figured on a weekly basis (AS 23.10.060(e))
If you work more than 8 hours in a single day and/or more than 40 hours in a single week, you must be paid time-and-one-half (1.5 times) your hourly or regular wage for those extra hours that you worked. … Some employees are exempt from overtime, such as executive, administrative, and professional employees, all of which require very specific criteria to be met. … A grand total of four or more. An employer who has a total of only three (3) employees, or less, can pay his/her employees straight-time for all hours worked.
(a) An employer who employs employees engaged in commerce or other business, or in the production of goods or materials in the state, may not employ an employee for a workweek longer than 40 hours or for more than eight hours a day. … overtime compensation for the overtime at the rate of one and one-half times the regular rate of pay shall be paid. An employee is entitled to overtime compensation for hours worked in excess of eight hours a day. An employee is also entitled to overtime compensation for hours worked in excess of 40 hours a week; in determining whether an employee has worked more than 40 hours a week, the number of hours worked shall be determined without including hours that are worked in excess of eight hours in a day because the employee has or will be separately awarded overtime compensation based on those hours. … The provisions of AS 23.10.050 23.10.150 do not apply to … (1) an individual employed in agriculture … (2) an individual employed in the catching, trapping, cultivating, farming, netting, or taking of any kind of fish, shellfish, or other aquatic forms of animal and vegetable life; … (3) an individual employed in the handpicking of shrimp; … (4) an individual employed in domestic service, including a babysitter, in or about a private home; … (5) an individual employed by the United States or by the state or a political subdivision of the state, except as provided in AS 23.10.065(b), including prisoners not on furlough detained or confined in prison facilities; … (6) an individual engaged in the nonprofit activities of a nonprofit religious, charitable, cemetery, or educational organization or other nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist … (7) an employee engaged in the delivery of newspapers to the consumer; … (8) an individual employed solely as a watchman or caretaker of a plant or property that is not in productive use for a period of four months or more; … (A) in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity; … (B) in the capacity of an outside salesman or a salesman who is employed on a straight commission basis; or … (C) as a computer systems analyst, computer programmer, software engineer, or other similarly skilled worker; … (10) an individual employed in the search for placer or hard rock minerals; … (11) an individual under 18 years of age employed on a part-time basis not more than 30 hours in a week; … (12) employment by a nonprofit educational or child care facility to serve as a parent of children while the children are in residence at the facility … (13) an individual who drives a taxicab … (14) a person who holds a license under AS 08.54 and who is employed by a registered guide-outfitter or master guide-outfitter licensed under AS 08.54, for the first 60 workdays … (15) an individual engaged in activities for a nonprofit religious, charitable, civic, cemetery, recreational, or educational organization where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist, and where services are rendered to the organization under a work activity requirement of AS 47.27 (Alaska temporary assistance program); … (A) provides emergency medical services only on a voluntary basis; … (B) serves with a full-time fire department only on a voluntary basis; or … (C) provides ski patrol services on a voluntary basis; … (17) a student participating in a University of Alaska practicum described under AS 14.40.065; … (18) an individual who is employed by a motor vehicle dealer and whose primary duty is to … (b) Notwithstanding (c) of this section, an individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity shall be compensated on a salary or fee basis at a rate of not less than two times the state minimum wage for the first 40 hours of employment each week … (d) This section does not apply to … (1) an employee employed by an employer employing fewer than four employees in the regular course of business … (2) an employee employed in handling, packing, storing, pasteurizing, drying, preparing in their raw or natural state, or canning agricultural or horticultural commodities for market, or in making cheese or butter or other dairy products; … (3) an employee of an employer engaged in small mining operations where not more than 12 employees are employed if the employee is employed not in excess of 12 hours a day or 56 hours a week during a period or periods of not more than 14 workweeks in the aggregate in a calendar year during the mining season … (4) an employee engaged in agriculture; … (5) an employee employed in connection with the publication of a weekly, semiweekly, or daily newspaper with a circulation of less than 1,000; … (6) a switchboard operator employed in a public telephone exchange that has fewer than 750 stations; … (7) an employee in an otherwise exempted employment or proprietor in a retail or service establishment engaged in handling telephone or radio messages for the public under an agency or contract arrangement with a communications company where the communications revenue of the agency does not exceed $500 a month; … (8) an employee employed as a seaman; … (9) an employee employed in planting or tending trees, cruising, or surveying, or bucking, or felling timber, or in preparing or transporting logs or other forestry products to the mill, processing plant, railroad, or other transportation terminal if the number of employees employed by the employer in the forestry or lumbering operations does not exceed 12; … (10) an individual employed as an outside buyer of poultry, eggs, cream, or milk in their raw or natural state; … (11) casual employees as may be liberally defined by regulations of the commissioner; … (12) an employee of a hospital whose employment includes the provision of medical services; … (13) work performed by an employee under a flexible work hour plan if the plan is included as part of a collective bargaining agreement; … (15) an individual employed as a line haul truck driver for a trip that exceeds 100 road miles one way if the compensation system under which the truck driver is paid includes overtime pay for work in excess of 40 hours a week or for more than eight hours a day and the compensation system requires a rate of pay comparable to the rate of pay required by this section; … (16) an individual employed as a community health aide by a local or regional health organization as those terms are defined in AS 18.28.100; … (18) work performed by an employee under a voluntary written agreement addressing the trading of work shifts among employees if … (19) work performed by a flight crew member employed by an air carrier subject to 45 U.S.C. 181 188 (subchapter II of the Railway Labor Act); in this paragraph, flight crew means the pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer, and flight attendants. … (14) work performed by an employee under a voluntary flexible work hour plan if … (A) the employee and the employer have signed a written agreement and the written agreement has been filed with the department; and … (B) the department has issued a certificate approving the plan that states the work is for 40 hours a week and not more than 10 hours a day; for work over 40 hours a week or 10 hours a day under a flexible work hour plan not included as part of a collective bargaining agreement, compensation at the rate of one and one-half times the regular rate of pay shall be paid for the overtime; … (17) work performed by a mechanic primarily engaged in the servicing of automobiles, light trucks, and motor homes if the mechanic … (A) is employed as a flat-rate mechanic by a nonmanufacturing establishment primarily engaged in the business of selling or servicing motor vehicles; … (D) is compensated for all hours worked in any capacity for that employer in excess of eight hours a day or 40 hours a week at one and one-half times the rate described in (C) of this paragraph; … (e) The minimum amount due an employee under (d)(17)(C) and (D) of this section shall be figured on a weekly basis.