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Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees

The Wage and Hour Division published this final rule in the Federal Register on April 26, 2024. It took effect on July 1, 2024.

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What the agency says

The Department of Labor (Department) is updating and revising the regulations issued under the Fair Labor Standards Act implementing the exemptions from minimum wage and overtime pay requirements for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, and computer employees. Significant revisions include increasing the standard salary level, increasing the highly compensated employee total annual compensation threshold, and adding to the regulations a mechanism that will allow for the timely and efficient updating of the salary and compensation thresholds, including an initial update on July 1, 2024, to reflect earnings growth. The Department is not finalizing in this rule its proposal to apply the standard salary level to the U.S. territories subject to the Federal minimum wage and to update the special salary levels for American Samoa and the motion picture industry.

Key facts

Document number: 2024-08038
Type: Final rule
Action: Final rule
Agency: Labor Department; Wage and Hour Division
Published: April 26, 2024
Takes effect: July 1, 2024
Dates: The effective date for this final rule is July 1, 2024. Sections 541.600(a)(2) and 541.601(a)(2) are applicable beginning January 1, 2025.
Regulation ID (RIN): 1235-AA39
Code of Federal Regulations: 29 CFR 541
Topics: Labor; Minimum wages; Teachers; Wages
Pages: 132

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