As an employer, you are always on the lookout for ways to be efficient and cut unnecessary costs to your business. As you are hiring new administrative employees you come across an employment classification: exempt status. Under this status, you realize you are not required to pay overtime; you even see that there is an administrative exemption, so you think “this is great, I’m not required to pay overtime as long as I classify my employees as exempt!” Sound too good to be true? Probably because it is.
