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Really? I know a couple of guys who work nights at Wal-Mart, and they make around $10/hr.

My back of the napkin put $50K @ 60 hours put at just above $13/hr base rate. Taking a look at Glassdoor, my guess would be several years of small raises would get you pretty close.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/night-stocker-salary-SRCH_...

I would assume it depends on the part of the country you are in as well.

60 hours/week x 50 weeks/year = 3,000 hours/year. $50,000/3,000 hours = $16.67/hour.

In any case, I don't believe that these companies will give overtime. In fact, your glassdoor link doesn't show any company paying over $30,000/year to their night workers, with the average being around $25,000.

That is correct. That is why I said it was the "base rate". The example was to illustrate what the employment opportunity would look like if an employer of a developer had to pay an hourly rate with overtime pay, instead of being able to pay them as an exempt salaried employee.

Assuming the position required 60 hour work weeks(as a non trivial amount of developer positions do) this is what the two would look like for exactly the same final pay.

With salary one can say: $50,000/year

With hourly one would say: $13/hr + overtime

While being the exact same pay, it looks quite a bit different. No?

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