Well restaurant management industry-wide, the standard is 50-hour work weeks. I dont have a ton of job history and have only worked in two places at this level. So when you're hired, your salary is paid like a 40-hour week but the standard is 50...
Where I'm currently at is far more flexible than my previous joint, I haven't worked a 50-hour week in my 6 months here yet, but at my old spot I never could get under 50 (maybe a handful of times I got to 48-49, no lower than that), and on many occasions I worked 60-70...
The thing is while they just made me hourly, I'm not considered an hourly employee, because my hourly is based off industry range salaries. I have access to a grip of benefits and perks hourly employees don't have, and in this company from what I can see, no hourly employee is getting over $15/hour in these East Coast/South markets. Those of us that are management-turned-hourly are getting well in excess of that...
But this goes back to my issue with the industry. My PTO and shyt is paid off a 40-hour week, it was like this at the other place, too, so it never made sense, from a QOL perspective, to work backbreaking hours. The pay has to match the work being asked, which is rare in this industry. So this is more fuel on the fire to me, now I'm paid hourly and can't get my salary guaranteed, I'd literally have to force feed 4-5 hours on my schedule to make that happen, and it isn't worth it for a QOL and peace if mind vantage. Not worth it...
The ~10% deduction in pay is gonna come back multiple times over, I'm not pressed. Chick who works with me doing everything she can to hit 50 every week, but I also think she gets paid a little less than me; she finished this last week at 48.76 to my 45, and that was with her coming in early on shifts and twice for a minute on days off...
She can work herself into that grave, I already been there. The difference between averaging 55 hour weeks to 45 is monumental, I'm not trading it. So these muhfukkas can try this slick move they on, I'm gonna laugh last in the end...
Some would like that tho… 
