I’d rather have the overtime.
'Course it'll cost me a bundle, and I ain't as young as I used t'be, and I hope it doesn't rain, and I have only 4 days to do it .....
Fine! That’s your choice.
Having been salary my entire working life, I would rather take the pay over “time off” later on. One company I worked at did that for several years. It was straight time but they did pay it when I worked more than forty hours a week.
Later on they dropped that and went with the “Time off” later on. Which we quickly learned meant take it as soon as you could or it disappeared down the memory hole.