Changes to Computer Professional Wage Rates

California's Computer Professional Exemption, as codified in Cal. Lab. Code § 515.5 was enacted in September of 2000.  Since then, the law has been revised several time to cover more and more computer programmers.  The latest revision took effect September 30, 2008.  This revision allows, for the first time, a fixed salary to be used to cover all overtime hours worked.  Previously, as the number of hours worked increased, so did the salary required to meet the requirements of the exemptions.  However, as of September 20, 2008, a flat salary of $75,000 per year will make a skilled computer programmer exempt from overtime.  This rate is set to automatically index on January 1 of each year.  As such, effective January 1, 2009, a fixed salary of $79,050 will suffice to make a skilled computer programmer exempt from overtime.  The corresponding hourly rate is $37.94.

For a complete description of all the requirements for this exemption, please visit my California Computer Professional Exemption page.

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[nissan the labor lawyer philippines]

Labor and employment is really relevant. Having skilled employees, I think is their rights to be compensated properly.

[hradcliffe]

Exempt employee information is always interesting and eveolving. Thanks.

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[Job Descriptions]

Yes proper compensation with fair amount is ideal for the employees. The employers should implement this to gain better income too.

[Law Firm Manila]

They must do that for the sake of their job. In any profession like that they must have compensation that reflects their job. Just follow the law to really it is.

[lawyer philippines]

The salary must be directly equal to skills applied by the employee for the company's operation. This act must be revised specially nowadays that the computer programmers are highly in demand for the best marketing asset of every company. I guess they deserve that kind of rate.