Raise the Employee’s Salary to Keep the Overtime Exemption
For white-collar salaried employees under the $47,476 threshold, you may want to bump them up to or above this level to maintain the exemption. This is best (and still cost-effective) for employees close to the new minimum who meet the law’s requirements for exempt status (the “job duties” test) and regularly work overtime, freeing you from the obligation of calculating their overtime hours.