from salary to hourly back to salary paycheck question

[bobburger]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Texas

So I was always paid in salary Then in sept my job decided my position would go to hourly. In doing this we were put one week in arrears. they gave us a short loan which was repaid in december. Now that I got a promotion I am going back to salary. My first day to be salary is today. I was told I would see this salary pay rate on 6/23 pay check. I also have a pay check on 6/9. Should I also be getting a check for the one week in arrears? If so would it be the 6/9 or 6/23 pay check?

 

[Stephen1]

We need to understand what the pay periods are (not when you receive your check but the period of work the check is for). Is the pay period for salary the same as the pay period for the hourly work? Did you change from hourly to salary at the beginning of a salary pay period?

 

[bobburger]

So for the hourly people (with one week arrears) the pay period goes like this the pay check i'm getting on 6/9 the pay period ended yesterday 6/2.

For salary there is no arrears so when I get paid the 23rd It ends that week. That is where I am so confused. I know they have an extra week of my pay. The one that I was short when they switched me to hourly in the fall. My boss said i'd get it he just doesnt' know which pay check it falls on

 

[FlyingRon]

For that time you were working in an exempt job, you must be paid for every hour you worked (plus any overtime applicable), right up to the day you switched roles.
Once you are changed to a job that is non-exempt, the pay is whatever your employer says it is (within some minimal limits).

Salary vs. hourly however isn't the definition of exempt vs. non-exempt. It really depends on your job responsibilities. The employer is free to treat exempt employees as non-exempt (the Federal government does this, for example).

My first step would be to talk to whoever generates the paychecks and ask if they can give you an accounting of what pay applies to what periods. It would seem to me (if all goes as you describe), that you will get "double" pay on your first check just as you had a "gap" when you switched before. That is, your "salary" rate of pay started when the switched your position and you still get the arrears pay.