Pay categories

Depending on your benefit eligibility, your paycheck will categorize your wages by hourly wages, overtime, or other categories of pay listed in the Benefits section:

Regular hours

Compensation is calculated by multiplying hourly wages by the number of hours and/or minutes worked in a particular work week.

Overtime

As required by the federal government, all non-exempt First Circle employees are paid1 1/2 times their hourly salary for any hours worked more than 40 hours per work. Non-exempt employees include teachers and teaching assistants. The only exempt First Circle employees are members of the administrative team, who are salaried, and not eligible for overtime. Other guidelines:

• You must be authorized by administration to come in early, work late, or work through scheduled breaks.
• To calculate overtime, hours paid are hours actually worked, not including PTO, holiday, emergency closure, leave of any kind or other personal time. They don’t include any meal or other break time for which you’re required to sign out.
• By federal law, “comp” time is not available.

Other categories

Other than regular hours, your weekly paycheck can include hours paid in other categories including PTO, holiday pay, jury duty, bereavement, staff meetings, required training, PR events, emergency closing/delayed open, bonus, late fee, or maternity leave.