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>> Rarely (never in my experience) does the agreement include you only work 40 hours a week

All my full time contracts have had the amount of hours I am expected to work + how overtime work is to be handled.

Additinally, there's laws setting an upper limit on the amount of hours (at least in the few countries where I've worked)

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To clarify the parent commenters statement, this is rarely, if ever, part of full time employment agreements in the US (where the worker is a W2 employee and not a 1099 employee) where the worker is above a particular level/skillset.

In fact, it's codified into law and payroll systems have clear delineations about how this works. Companies often have 2 classes of workers referred to as "exempt" (these are salaried workers) and "non-exempt" (hourly workers), where what the "exempt" refers to is whether the worker is exempt from overtime rules and other concerns.

Point being, if you are an exempt worker (which I'm guessing is like 95%+ of W2 employed programmers in the US), you won't be getting paid overtime.

> Companies often have 2 classes of workers referred to as "exempt" (these are salaried workers) and "non-exempt" (hourly workers)

That's not what “exempt” means, though its very common for those to correlate (you can be hourly exempt and salaried non-exempt.)

Sure, that's possible, although (in my experience) very uncommon.

Plus, the last half of that sentence was "where what the "exempt" refers to is whether the worker is exempt from overtime rules and other concerns", which very much is what exempt means. The US Department of Labor has more details: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17a-overtime