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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wawazat" data-source="post: 3654498" data-attributes="member: 35603">I have never worked in or managed a salary position that was only 40 hours a week.  Normally the whole point to bumping someone to salary is when their responsibilities start requiring an average of 45-50 hour weeks and it is cheaper than overtime pay.  Granted not every week required that many hours, but it typically averaged out to about that after I got the work flow going my way.I started noticing 8-10 years ago that kids entering the professional workforce had somehow been led to believe that salary jobs ended when the 40th hour was complete.  I have had to explain more than once that a salary job is being paid to handle a set of tasks regardless of the time it takes.  If you can get your work knocked out in an acceptable way in 35 hours, awesome!  If it takes you 60 hours, tough luck.  It is part of the deal.  The ones that found a way to knock their work out of the park and have free time on a regular basis were typically making a lot more than their counterparts within a few years too.</blockquote>