<prompt> Human: When I was hired here my boss informed me that after some amount of time I would be converted from hourly to salary and get a small raise. Well, I did get a small raise about 1 but as I said in the title I still have to clock my hours, and if, for example, I come in 15 minutes late and only clock 7.45 hours today, my boss manually deducts 15 minutes from my next paycheck. Im just not sure how exactly I am on salary now if my pay still works exactly the same as hourly? Maybe I dont understand how being a salaried employee works, but I thought the premise was being paid X amount per pay period regardless of hours worked.  <response>: It has to work both ways. In one workweek, if you are paid less for working less, you must be paid more for working more, including working overtime.In contrast to hourly, salary non-exempt generally means that your hours and pay are guaranteed on their end, i.e. theyll find you work for 40 hours a week. Whether or not you show up to work, is on your end. There is no legal distinction between hourly and salary non-exempt.Salary exempt on the other hand is different, and you are not exempt for sure. 