Exempt Salary Threshold Check 2026 by ReadyStack

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.


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• 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.

| You type | |
|---|---|
| Where the job sits | default ca |
| Salary you pay | default 62000 |
| Hours the job really works | default 48 |
| Job duties meet the executive, administrative or professional test | default True |
| Back-pay lookback | default 104 |
| Date you will re-check salaries | default 2027-01-01 |

| It answers | |
|---|---|
| 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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