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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 minimum salary changes in multiple states, effective January 1, 2026.
Updated to reflect the 2026 annual inflation adjustment to the minimum salary.
Updated to reflect proposed regulations regarding the overtime exemptions for companionship services providers and live-in domestic help.
HR guidance on complying with the salary basis test of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state wage and hour laws.