Salary Exempt Minimum Wage 2024. What are the early 2025 minimum wage updates employers should look out for? Employers that have exempt workers who earn more than $684 per week, but less than the new salary thresholds of the final rule (and who satisfy the duties requirements), can comply by increasing affected employees’.

In 2024, the dol issued a final rule to increase the minimum salary threshold for the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions (“eap exemptions”). On january 1, 2025, the minimum salary level was set to increase again to $58,656.