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Be a salaried employee, which means you are paid on a regular, fixed, and pre-determined schedule and you make at least $684 a workweek, and. Qualify under one of the specific duties tests, which means that your job must include duties and tasks that require a relatively high level of expertise or knowledge.

Salaried refers to the payment structure of being paid a fixed amount of money per year. And this is only one of the three requirements of being exempt. Exempt refers to not being eligible to receive overtime pay or qualify for minimum wage.

An employer must pay an employee at least the minimum wage (currently $7.25 an hour under both North Carolina and federal labor laws) or pay the employee the promised rate of pay, whichever is greater, and pay time and one-half overtime pay based on the employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of ...

If an employee is paid a guaranteed salary of at least $684 a workweek and is not paid time and one-half overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek, then the employer must determine to if the employee is a salaried-exempt employee.

All NCDOL wage complaints must be filed by calling 800-625-2267.

There is no limit on the number of hours the adult employee may be required to work. The decision to work employees in eight-hour shifts, 12-hour shifts, 16-hour shifts, etc., is entirely up to the employer. The decision to call an employee back in to work on a scheduled day off is entirely up to the employer.