As a human resources management major, Rowena has been learning about the various types of compensation that can be paid to employees. Which of the following is correct regarding employee compensation? Sales managers often are paid entirely by salary. For wage employees, anything more than 30 hours in a week is overtime, for which they are paid one-and-one-half times their hourly wage. A lump-sum salary increase gives employees the option of taking a pay raise in the form of employee benefits. A salary is a specific amount of money paid for an employee's work during a set calendar period, regardless of the actual number of hours worked