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DOL gets flexible on overtime
May 20, 2026 // In 2023, The Biden administration raised the income threshold from $35,500 to $44,000, and planned to increase it again to $59,000 annually by 2025. This was intended to expand the number of people receiving overtime. The administration’s union allies and labor-sympathetic lawmakers have long argued that companies abuse the exception by designating regular employees as managerial to get out of having to pay them overtime. Raising the threshold was meant to prevent this. This one-size-fits-all approach did not necessarily benefit all workers. The Biden rule would have limited employers’ ability to offer work weeks longer than 40 hours in exchange for other considerations, such as the ability to work from home or additional time off during other weeks.