Do you fall into any of these catagories? (from the Dept of Labor)
The following are examples of employees exempt from both the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements:
Executive, administrative, and professional employees (including teachers and academic administrative personnel in elementary and secondary schools), outside sales employees, and certain skilled computer professionals (as defined in the Department of Labor's regulations); 1
Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments;
Employees of certain small newspapers and switchboard operators of small telephone companies;
Seamen employed on foreign vessels;
Employees engaged in fishing operations;
Employees engaged in newspaper delivery;
Farm workers employed on small farms (i.e., those that used less than 500 "man‑days" of farm labor in any calendar quarter of the preceding calendar year); and
Casual babysitters and persons employed as companions to the elderly or infirm.
The following are examples of employees exempt from the overtime pay requirements only:
Certain commissioned employees of retail or service establishments;
Auto, truck, trailer, farm implement, boat, or aircraft salespersons employed by non‑manufacturing establishments primarily engaged in selling these items to ultimate purchasers;
Auto, truck, or farm implement parts‑clerks and mechanics employed by non‑manufacturing establishments primarily engaged in selling these items to ultimate purchasers;
Railroad and air carrier employees, taxi drivers, certain employees of motor carriers, seamen on American vessels, and local delivery employees paid on approved trip rate plans;
Announcers, news editors, and chief engineers of certain non‑metropolitan broadcasting stations;
Domestic service workers who reside in their employers' residences;
Employees of motion picture theaters; and
Farmworkers.
Certain employees may be partially exempt from the overtime pay requirements. These include:
Employees engaged in certain operations on agricultural commodities and employees of certain bulk petroleum distributors;
Employees of hospitals and residential care establishments that have agreements with the employees that they will work 14‑day periods in lieu of 7‑day workweeks (if the employees are paid overtime premium pay within the requirements of the Act for all hours worked over eight in a day or 80 in the 14‑day work period, whichever is the greater number of overtime hours); and
Employees who lack a high school diploma, or who have not completed the eighth grade, who spend part of their workweeks in remedial reading or training in other basic skills that are not job‑specific. Employers may require such employees to engage in these activities up to 10 hours in a workweek. Employers must pay normal wages for the hours spent in such training but need not pay overtime premium pay for training hours.
