The Department seeks public input on questions such as:

• What is the appropriate salary level (or range of salary levels) above which the overtime exemptions for bona fide executive, administrative, or professional employees may apply?
  • Why?
• What benefits and costs to employees and employers might accompany an increased salary level?
  • How would an increased salary level affect real wages (e.g., increasing overtime pay for employees whose current salaries are below a new level but above the current threshold)?
  • Could an increased salary level reduce litigation costs by reducing the number of employees whose exemption status is unclear?
  • Could this additional certainty produce other benefits for employees and employers?
• What is the best methodology to determine an updated salary level?
  • Should the update derive from wage growth, cost-of-living increases, actual wages paid to employees, or some other measure?
• Should the Department more regularly update the standard salary level and the total-annual-compensation level for highly compensated employees?
  • If so, how should these updates be made?
  • How frequently should updates occur?
  • What benefits, if any, could result from more frequent updates?

I am looking forward to your input!

Lisa Smith
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