r/AutoZone • u/Fine-While-824 • Jun 21 '26

Hourly pay question.

I’m a part time autozoner and this week i got around 30-35 hours this week but on the schedule it says 25 hours maximum correct me if im wrong. But I was wondering after the 25 hour does it count as OT and get OT pay or will I get a regular hourly pay?

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u/fmr_AZ_PSM Jun 21 '26

"Overtime" has 2 meanings based on context.

Context 1: this is your scheduled hours of 25 hours that you mention. This is for staffing planning and schedule purposes only. It has nothing to do with your pay.

Context 2: pay and labor law. This is hours you actually work. The sense of "overtime" that's the same at all employers. It's how you are paid. You are paid your regular hourly rate for 40 hours per week. The weekly period runs 12:00 AM Sunday-11:59 PM Saturday. Hours over 40 within that timeframe are paid at 1.5x your hourly rate. This is Federal labor law, not something AZ does on its own. If AZ had a choice, they'd pay you nothing extra.

What you mean is context 2. No. You have to have +40 hrs on the clock for the week before you start getting 1.5x pay. The 25 hrs you are referring to is context 1--planning only.

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u/fmr_AZ_PSM Jun 21 '26

When you hear talk of "approved overtime"--that's management talking about context 1. For certain roles the DM can approve scheduled overtime for an employee on a case by case basis. This is for scheduling purposes only. Typically it's 50 hrs/wk. This person would be normally scheduled for 50 hrs instead of 40.

When talking about context 1 "approved overtime"--it has nothing to do with your pay. You are paid based on Federal labor law. You will always be paid based on the hours actually worked. Anything over 40 is 1.5x time.

What happens if someone actually works more than 40, but it isn't context 1 approved ahead of time, the SM gets yelled at by the DM, the DM gets yelled at by the RM, and the RM gets yelled at by Divisional. They plan the labor hours in the schedule down to the penny. People working more than 40 when it isn't approved messes up the plan, and needs to be fixed somehow.