Enter a salary and a state: get the 2026 exempt floor, the overtime back pay if the job is under it, and what a raise costs instead.
Answer
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Floor for this state
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a week
Floor as a year
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a year
What you pay
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a week
Short by
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a week
Overtime owed
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a week
Back pay over the lookback
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USD
With liquidated damages
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USD
Raise to the floor costs
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a year
8 salary floors for 2026 Holds the federal $684 a week floor plus the seven higher jurisdictions that bind in 2026: California, both New York rates, Washington, Colorado, Alaska and Maine.
Back-pay exposure Turns the hours worked over 40 into overtime owed per week, multiplies it over a 2-year or willful 3-year lookback, then doubles it for FLSA liquidated damages under 29 USC 216(b).
Cost of the raise instead Shows what lifting the salary to the floor costs for a year, next to the exposure, so the cheaper path is obvious before the next payroll run.
Duties test gate Salary alone never makes a job exempt. Clearing the duties checkbox flips the answer to not exempt no matter how high the pay is.
Export and re-check reminder Saves the worked result as a .csv row for your roster file and sets browser reminders 30, 14 and 1 days before the date you set to re-check floors.