<prompt> Human: I am currently an hourly employee paid at a rate of 20hr. I work for a small firm and we recently lost a coworker that handled a position similar to mine. Her reasons for leaving cited wages, growth, etc. My firm decided that following this they would give me a 5k-a-year raise and switch me over to salaried. While I am grateful for the raise, I am wary of switching to salaried. I regularly work 5-8 hours OT a week, and upon being salaried will lose the OT from my understanding. Im not interested in going from 40-50 hours a week worked to 60 due to being a salaried employee. I plan to ask about this possibility, but was hoping for more insight from anyone else that has experienced this before. This may be extraneous, but I am currently looking at other opportunities as well, so perhaps I should just say thank you and get on with my job, as I do not see myself being in this role for more than six more months.  <response>: If you current work 5 hours of OT at week at 30 hr, thats 3900 yr. So making you salaried at 5,000 means theyre really only giving you a 1,1000 yr raise, or 40 a paycheck, maximum.Explain your concerns in a polite, business manner. Hey boss, I appreciate the consideration. Unfortunately, when I crunch the numbers, I come out behind. I work 5-10 hours of overtime a week, meaning that if I continue the same work hours right now, your raise could cost me 2500 a year.You can offer salaried non-exempt, where you still get paid overtime rare, but no reason they cant do it. You can counter with a 10,000 yr raise.As long as the discussion is business, they wont take it poorly. Theyre approaching it as a negotiation, so you should too. 