# Non-exempt employee

> Non-exempt employee — An employee owed at least the minimum wage and overtime at one and one-half times the regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek — salaried or hourly.

Source: https://lopifi.com/glossary/non-exempt-employee
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**What is non-exempt employee?** In accounting, non-exempt employee means an employee owed at least the minimum wage and overtime at one and one-half times the regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek — salaried or hourly.

## Words this system refuses for it

- hourly (an hourly employee is non-exempt, not every non-exempt employee is hourly)

- **Category:** Payroll
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/11-lexicon)
- **Related:** exempt-employee, minimum-wage, regular-rate, workweek