Effective January 1, 2008, the minimum wage increased from $7.50 per hour to $8.00 per hour. The increased minimum wage increases the minimum salary that must be paid to exempt executive, administrative and professional employees, who must be paid no less than twice the minimum wage if they are to be denied overtime pay for work in excess of eight hours per day or forty hours per week. Thus, an employee who was paid an annual salary of $31,200 might have been exempt (assuming that the duties test was also met) last month, but now must make at least $33,280 annually to remain exempt from overtime pay.
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