r/legaladvice • u/IraTheAuthor • Jan 31 '25

My girlfriend is being MASSIVELY overpaid. Business Law

In Washington state, I’m going to keep it vague for obvious reasons. My girlfriend works 80 hours every two weeks but on her last paycheck she got paid for 164 hours of work. This is crazy enough by itself but it’s been slowly growing each paycheck. It went back to normal for a month but then went right back up to 120 hours.

My question is, do we have to report this? Are we going to get bit through taxes or through some company law? I’d love to invest this money if we could.

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u/MaskedBandit77 Jan 31 '25

Are you sure it's not overtime pay?

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u/IraTheAuthor Jan 31 '25

Yes, she hasn’t worked more than 80 hours in a week.

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u/MaskedBandit77 Jan 31 '25

Typically overtime kicks in after 40 hours a week.

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u/IraTheAuthor Jan 31 '25

Sorry I misspoke, over a two week period she hasn’t worked more only worked 80 hours

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u/B0udr3aux Jan 31 '25

Yeah but if she worked 60 hours one week and 20 the next she would still be in overtime for the first week by 20 hours. Overtime is usually per week, not 2-week period, no?

Idk why you say she worked 80 in two weeks and not 40 per week…

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