Hundreds Impacted

The new overtime rule will directly impact up to 12.5 million people, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Raising the threshold will affect workers in all states, with the biggest effects—in terms of states with the greatest share of salaried workers in that state who will directly benefit from raising the threshold­—in West Virginia (30.7 percent), Arkansas (30.6 percent), South Carolina (30.3 percent),  Florida (29.3 percent), Tennessee (29.2 percent), Idaho (29.1 percent), Georgia (28.2 percent), South Dakota (28.2 percent), Delaware (27.7 percent), and North Dakota (27.5 percent).

Salaried workers directly impacted from the increase in the overtime salary threshold, by state

	Total salaried workers*	Directly benefiting salaried workers**	Share of state’s salaried workers that are directly benefiting	State’s share of directly benefiting workers	State’s share of total salaried workforce
State	(A)	(B)	(C)=(B/A)	(D)=(Bx/B1)	(E)=(Ax/A1)
United States	53,717,000	12,502,000	23.3%	100.0%	100.0%
Alabama	632,000	167,000	26.4%	1.3%	1.2%
Alaska	90,000	16,000	17.6%	0.1%	0.2%
Arizona	999,000	258,000	25.8%	2.1%	1.9%
Arkansas	425,000	130,000	30.6%	1.0%	0.8%
California	6,005,000	1,076,000	17.9%	8.6%	11.2%
Colorado	1,033,000	248,000	24.0%	2.0%	1.9%
Connecticut	700,000	113,000	16.2%	0.9%	1.3%
Delaware	176,000	49,000	27.7%	0.4%	0.3%
District of Columbia	170,000	29,000	16.8%	0.2%	0.3%
Florida	3,645,000	1,068,000	29.3%	8.5%	6.8%
Georgia	1,748,000	493,000	28.2%	3.9%	3.3%
Hawaii	214,000	57,000	26.4%	0.5%	0.4%
Idaho	219,000	64,000	29.1%	0.5%	0.4%
Illinois	2,359,000	539,000	22.8%	4.3%	4.4%
Indiana	999,000	248,000	24.9%	2.0%	1.9%
Iowa	493,000	124,000	25.2%	1.0%	0.9%
Kansas	449,000	98,000	21.7%	0.8%	0.8%
Kentucky	591,000	149,000	25.1%	1.2%	1.1%
Louisiana	710,000	174,000	24.5%	1.4%	1.3%
Maine	191,000	46,000	24.2%	0.4%	0.4%
Maryland	1,156,000	233,000	20.2%	1.9%	2.2%
Massachusetts	1,454,000	262,000	18.0%	2.1%	2.7%
Michigan	1,366,000	275,000	20.1%	2.2%	2.5%
Minnesota	961,000	158,000	16.4%	1.3%	1.8%
Mississippi	349,000	88,000	25.3%	0.7%	0.6%
Missouri	979,000	257,000	26.3%	2.1%	1.8%
Montana	126,000	33,000	26.4%	0.3%	0.2%
Nebraska	314,000	81,000	25.8%	0.6%	0.6%
Nevada	428,000	115,000	26.9%	0.9%	0.8%
New Hampshire	253,000	54,000	21.5%	0.4%	0.5%
New Jersey	2,050,000	410,000	20.0%	3.3%	3.8%
New Mexico	242,000	61,000	25.3%	0.5%	0.5%
New York	4,157,000	982,000	23.6%	7.9%	7.7%
North Carolina	1,653,000	425,000	25.7%	3.4%	3.1%
North Dakota	122,000	34,000	27.5%	0.3%	0.2%
Ohio	1,677,000	351,000	20.9%	2.8%	3.1%
Oklahoma	587,000	154,000	26.2%	1.2%	1.1%
Oregon	568,000	124,000	21.9%	1.0%	1.1%
Pennsylvania	2,035,000	459,000	22.6%	3.7%	3.8%
Rhode Island	169,000	37,000	21.8%	0.3%	0.3%
South Carolina	724,000	219,000	30.3%	1.8%	1.3%
South Dakota	115,000	32,000	28.2%	0.3%	0.2%
Tennessee	993,000	290,000	29.2%	2.3%	1.8%
Texas	4,906,000	1,244,000	25.4%	9.9%	9.1%
Utah	493,000	119,000	24.1%	1.0%	0.9%
Vermont	109,000	25,000	22.9%	0.2%	0.2%
Virginia	1,578,000	333,000	21.1%	2.7%	2.9%
Washington	1,146,000	232,000	20.2%	1.9%	2.1%
West Virginia	215,000	66,000	30.7%	0.5%	0.4%
Wisconsin	866,000	187,000	21.6%	1.5%	1.6%
Wyoming	80,000	20,000	24.6%	0.2%	0.1%

Text of the final rule can be found in U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, 29 CFR Part 541, “Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales and Computer Employees.”