Gf switched from salary to hourly. - My gf is a director at a child care center in PA, USA. She was originally salaried for $45,448 a year salary. Recently she was moved from salary to hourly @ $21.85 an hr. Which works out to the same amount she made on salary. The weird part is they would have to pay her more because she works a lot of overtime. They said there would be no cutting of hours, no changes to benefits, basically it would all stay the same. Their reason given was they had to make changes in the company and restructure. Why would they do this? from what I understand (which isn't much) they would now have to pay her overtime vs not paying overtime when she was salaried. Even if they make it so she only works works 40hrs a week she would make the same amount for less work. I just can't wrap my head around the reasoning behind this.


Edit: Thanks for all the replies everyone gained a lot of knowledge on the subject. For the first time since she's worked there she's only scheduled for 40hrs next week. Assuming someone reported them, and their now correcting their mistakes.