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I am definitely speaking of US definitions of exempt and salary. Here in the US if your role is categorized that you are both exempt and salaried (most states this allows companies to categorized SWEs this way), you are not paid on the number of hours worked. So that said, if you only work 20 hours instead of 40, you are paid the same as if you work 80 instead of 40. The logic is that over the course of a year you will likely average 40.