In Massachusetts, for a workweek in excess of 40 hours, employees must be paid one and one-half times their regular rate. Tipped employees must be paid one and one-half times the applicable minimum wage rate.
Employees exempted from the overtime pay requirements include janitors with living quarters who earn at least $30 per week, caddies and newspaper carriers, executives or executive trainees, if they earn $80 per week, outside salespersons, apprentices and fishermen, switchboard operators in a public exchange, motor vehicle drivers under the Interstate Commerce Commission, seasonal employees, seamen, persons who work in motels, restaurants, nonprofit summer camps, garages, amusement parks, hospitals, homes for the aged, nonprofit school employees, common carriers licensed and regulated by Massachusetts, farm laborers, child actors or performers, and all employers exempt from state minimum wage requirements.