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California employees in the IT and computer software industry, including computer professionals, IT professionals and computer programmers may be entitled to overtime pay. Both federal law and most state laws require overtime pay for such professional employees who work more than 40 hours per week unless the employee is classified as exempt.
Many California IT professionals and/or computer programmers are misclassified as exempt, e.g., they don't manage anyone. If an IT professional, computer professional or programmer spends most of their time doing any combination of the following, they are entitled to overtime:
It is not uncommon for IT employees to work long hours driven by project deadlines or company policy requiring standards 60-70 hour work weeks. Yet employers at large corporations based in California such as Hewlett-Packard Company, Intel Corporation, Electronic Arts and IBM, just to name a few, have allegedly denied overtime wages to IT and computer professionals based on misclassification: these individuals are often considered exempt from the overtime requirements.
Recent class-action lawsuits against companies such as the above have been settled on behalf of high-tech employees and computer professionals in software and hardware industries who are entitled to overtime. Still, many employers are currently facing additional overtime lawsuits when they do not pay overtime to their IT employees as required by law.
It would be wise for employers to pay overtime: under the California labor laws pertaining to IT professionals (both in software and hardware industries), employees who work more than 40 hours per week without additional compensation, may receive overtime back pay (up to 4 years) and other related statutory amounts.
California State Labor Law for Computer Professionals: Rate of Pay
California State Labor Laws protect computer employees from unpaid overtime. California Labor Code 515.5 or SB 88 states that employees in the computer software field may be exempt from overtime pay if they meet several requirements. One exempt-status requirement involves pay rate: "The employee's hourly rate of pay is not less than forty-seven dollars and eighty-one cents ($47.81), or the annualized full-time salary equivalent of that rate."
If a California computer software employee earns less than $47.81 per hour or the annual salary equivalent of approximately $99,445, they may qualify for overtime pay.
In order to be exempt in California, effective as of January 1, 2008, a full-time employee must be salaried and earn at least $640 per week, or $33,280. The hourly minimum decreased to $36. Other states have similar laws for computer professionals, though the exempt-requirements and pay rates may differ.
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Overtime Pay for California Computer Professionals and High Tech Employees
Many California IT professionals and/or computer programmers are misclassified as exempt, e.g., they don't manage anyone. If an IT professional, computer professional or programmer spends most of their time doing any combination of the following, they are entitled to overtime:
- Analyzing, troubleshooting, and resolving complex problems with business applications, networking, and hardware.
- Installing, configuring, or testing new computers, applications, networks or hardware based on user-defined requirements.
- Creating or troubleshooting network accounts (logins) and other business application user accounts.
Recent class-action lawsuits against companies such as the above have been settled on behalf of high-tech employees and computer professionals in software and hardware industries who are entitled to overtime. Still, many employers are currently facing additional overtime lawsuits when they do not pay overtime to their IT employees as required by law.
It would be wise for employers to pay overtime: under the California labor laws pertaining to IT professionals (both in software and hardware industries), employees who work more than 40 hours per week without additional compensation, may receive overtime back pay (up to 4 years) and other related statutory amounts.
California State Labor Law for Computer Professionals: Rate of Pay
California State Labor Laws protect computer employees from unpaid overtime. California Labor Code 515.5 or SB 88 states that employees in the computer software field may be exempt from overtime pay if they meet several requirements. One exempt-status requirement involves pay rate: "The employee's hourly rate of pay is not less than forty-seven dollars and eighty-one cents ($47.81), or the annualized full-time salary equivalent of that rate."
If a California computer software employee earns less than $47.81 per hour or the annual salary equivalent of approximately $99,445, they may qualify for overtime pay.
In order to be exempt in California, effective as of January 1, 2008, a full-time employee must be salaried and earn at least $640 per week, or $33,280. The hourly minimum decreased to $36. Other states have similar laws for computer professionals, though the exempt-requirements and pay rates may differ.
California IT Overtime Legal Help
If you are a current or former employee in the IT, computer or software profession in California and you have worked more than eight hours per day or more than 40 hours per week but have not been paid overtime, you may be entitled to unpaid wages, overtime, interest and related amounts. Click on the link below to submit your overtime complaint.Last updated on
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I was labeled exempt and paid salary under $53K a year for seven years until I got laid off this year for no apparent reason. All the company said was that it was re-constructing its IT Dep. Gave me severance pay as well for being a good employee and the years of service. I was labeled as a Computer Applications Specialist and my pay grade was suppose to be at least $67K to $77K but was not even close. Worked over 40 hours a week at times for the past seven years. Never got paid OT at all, and because I was exempt, I would only put 40 hours a week on my timesheet even though I worked overtime.
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No matter how many hours I worked, I got paid at the same flat rate, approx. $44/hour, under the guise that I was a "contractor."
For four years, I put in 90 hours a week, 52 weeks a year without vacation or benefits. Now, I'm being told that I have been classified as an employee of Computer Task Group for the past eight years, and am not a contractor.
For four years, I put in 90 hours a week, 52 weeks a year without vacation or benefits. Now, I'm being told that I have been classified as an employee of Computer Task Group for the past eight years, and am not a contractor.