Reply To: Billable hours

If you are salaried, you get paid for working a full week, which is usually 40 hours.  If you work more than that, that is up to the company and how it views compensation.  Some offer larger bonuses, some work like sweat shops. Some offer comp time.   Some pay hourly over a full week for salaried. Some companies frown upon the worker billing more than a full week to a client.  I usually work a 50-60 hour week, and since I joined the firm I only once billed more than 40 hours in August 2012.  The client was a fee developer who had very unreasonable deadlines and I really did it as a warning to my boss and the client.  Last but not least, not all employers will pay you more just because you have >100% utilization on a time sheet.  

Keep track of your extra hours during the year.  It’s not necessarily something you want to show a boss at your review because it could backfire and you could come across as an opportunist.  However, if you have worked X number of hours over ~2,000 hours for the year (which we all do) but your employer doesn’t reward you appropriately, maybe its time to look for a new job somewhere else.