<p>this is kind of a dumb question... but do engineers get overtime?</p>
<p>since you are paid a yearly salary, if you are working 50 hrs a week, do you get overtime?</p>
<p>Most of the better structural engineering companies (98%, according to the CE News rankings) do pay overtime, in addition to salary. Not sure about other fields in engineering.</p>
<p>It all depends on company policy and the type of projects an engineer works on. I personally think, in most cases, an engineer is expected to put in extra time on a project, and is usually well compensated (monthly salary + benefits). </p>
<p>Though not an engineer, I used to work at an engineering consulting firm where they did receive straight time for some (not all) overtime hours. It often depended on if the project billing was "firm price" or "time & materials."</p>
<p>For the two companies I interned with (mechanical engineering) and the one I will be working for after graduation, there was no overtime pay. At company 1 the engineers typically put in 10 hours per day. At company 2 the engineers usually did 8 hours but one worked 7 days per week at 12 hours per day for a month during a major project. No overtime benefits. </p>
<p>Not getting overtime sucks but I like a flat salary because it gives me constant budget to work with. I know some people who lived well with overtime benefits and they got hit very hard when their employers cut their overtime hours.</p>