Employee or contractor. Exempt or non-exempt. Two decisions that set pay, taxes, and overtime, and are expensive to get wrong.
A worksheet for one role that walks through both decisions, records your reasoning, and gets sign-off. Keep it with the job description.
Guides and templates are general guidance, not legal advice. Always review with your legal counsel before using or sending anything based on them. State notes cover California, New York, Illinois, Texas, and Florida.
Employee or contractor. Exempt or non-exempt. Two decisions that set pay, taxes, and overtime, and are expensive to get wrong. Written for founders and hiring managers at small and growing companies, in plain language, with federal rules and state notes for California, New York, Illinois, Texas, and Florida.
The 9-page guide covers the two classification decisions; contractor tests by state; the exemption tests; 2026 salary thresholds for CA, NY, IL, TX, and FL. It comes with 1 editable Word template: Classification Worksheet. It is also part of the First Hire Kit.
Price: $59, one-time purchase, instant download. General guidance, not legal advice: review finished documents with your legal counsel.
It depends on who controls the work and whether the worker runs an independent business. California uses the strict ABC test for most purposes. The guide walks through the federal and state tests.
No. An exempt role must pass a duties test, be paid on a salary basis, and meet a minimum salary, which is higher in some states than the federal level.
No. ModuleHire HR guides and templates are general guidance. Review anything that affects an employee with your legal counsel before you use it.
Right after checkout you get a download page and an email link. Everything you buy also lives in your library at hr.modulehire.com/library.html, so you can download it again any time.
Guides on topics where state law matters, such as pay, leave, hiring, and terminations, include state notes for California, New York, Illinois, Texas, and Florida alongside federal rules.