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 | — | |
|---|---|---|
| Floor for this state | — | a week |
| Floor as a year | — | a year |
| What you pay | — | a week |
| Short by | — | a week |
| Overtime owed | — | a week |
| Back pay over the lookback | — | USD |
| With liquidated damages | — | USD |
| Raise to the floor costs | — | a year |
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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.
An employment lawyer's wage-and-hour review starts at $200 an hour; one misclassified $62,000 manager in California already owes $37,200 in back overtime.
Buy the full version — $60You type a salary, a state and the hours the job really works. Example: $62,000 in California at 48 hours a week sits under the $1,352 weekly floor, so the job owes $357.69 of overtime a week, $37,200 over two years, $74,400 once liquidated damages double it, against $8,304 to lift the salary to the $70,304 floor instead.
US small-business owners, office managers and payroll staff who keep a handful of salaried supervisors, shift leads and assistant managers between $45,000 and $75,000. It is built for the person who signs payroll in California, New York, Washington, Colorado, Alaska or Maine, where the state floor is higher than the federal one.
Most free answers still quote $1,128 a week from the 2024 Department of Labor rule that a federal court vacated in November 2024. The number that binds is $684 a week federally, or the higher state floor: $1,352 in California, $1,541.70 in Washington. A wrong floor turns a compliant payroll into back pay.
Every calculation is free, with no key, no limit and no watermark: all 8 salary floors, the exempt answer, overtime owed, back pay, doubled exposure and the cost of the raise. The $60 key adds two things on a different axis: .csv export of each result for your roster file, and browser reminders before your re-check date.
An employment lawyer's wage-and-hour review starts at $200 an hour, and a single misclassified $62,000 manager in California owes $37,200 in back overtime over two years before liquidated damages double it. The Department of Labor can also assess up to $2,515 per willful violation under 29 CFR 578.3.
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