Calculating Overtime

[mrobison14]

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

I am starting a new job soon, and I will be on hourly pay with overtime available. How do I present the proper wages to the court? I do not know how frequent the overtime will be and am not sure if the courts project an average or how this works.

I know what my starting hourly rate will be, and I know that there are some deductions I can use such as insurance I pay for myself and my children. I just don't know how to account for the potential overtime.

Anyone with info or experience on hourly pay support with overtime is calculated would be apprectiated.

 

[Antigone*]

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

I am starting a new job soon, and I will be on hourly pay with overtime available. How do I present the proper wages to the court? I do not know how frequent the overtime will be and am not sure if the courts project an average or how this works.

I know what my starting hourly rate will be, and I know that there are some deductions I can use such as insurance I pay for myself and my children. I just don't know how to account for the potential overtime.

Anyone with info or experience on hourly pay support with overtime is calculated would be apprectiated.

Just because overtime is available, does not mean you will get it. Do yourself a favor, report your wages as truthfully as you can. If you are not sure that you are going to get X number of overtime per payperiod, leave it out.

 

[nextwife]

I agree. wait and see how it falls out.

You may find that overtime is extensive in a particular month or so and non existant in other months. That's how my job is: lots of overtime at year end and start of year reporting time, less so mid year. I would not have known the pattern until I was there about a year.

 

[LdiJ]

I agree. wait and see how it falls out.

You may find that overtime is extensive in a particular month or so and non existant in other months. That's how my job is: lots of overtime at year end and start of year reporting time, less so mid year. I would not have known the pattern until I was there about a year.

I agree as well. I am in an industry where I make anywhere from 2/3rds to 3/4ths of my annul income in the first 3 1/2 months of the year...and then I have to seriously budget to handle the rest of the year. All you know at this point is that overtime is available. You don't know how much or how often.

 

[mrobison14]

How do we address that when I get the OT? Will the judge order a % of any future OT?

 

[LdiJ]

How do we address that when I get the OT? Will the judge order a % of any future OT?

Once you have been on the job for a sufficient length of time for OT to average out, it would likely be taken into consideration in future child support modifications.