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Executive Exemption
Updated to reflect an increase in the minimum salary for overtime-exempt executive, administrative and professional employees, effective January 1, 2026.
Updated to reflect increases to the minimum salaries for executive employees, administrative employees and professional employees, and to the minimum pay for computer professionals and physicians and surgeons paid an hourly rate, effective January 1, 2026.
Updated to reflect the 2026 annual inflation adjustment to the minimum salary.
Updated to reflect the vacatur of the overtime rule updating and revising the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime exemption requirements, effective November 15, 2024.
HR guidance on complying with the federal and state requirements for the executive exemption.