Increases To New York Minimum Wage And Salary Thresholds

While the Department of Labor may have stayed any national increases to the minimum exemption salary thresholds for the time being, New York employers have not been granted the same reprieve. Effective December 31, 2016, the New York Department of Labor announced incremental increases to its minimum wage laws. With the increased minimum wages, increases were also made to the corresponding salary thresholds applicable to the executive and administrative exemptions to New York’s overtime laws. In New York, the exemption for professional employees has no salary threshold.

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