{"id":2398,"date":"2025-11-25T10:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:05:17","slug":"2026-minimum-wage-exempt-pay-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/11\/25\/2026-minimum-wage-exempt-pay-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Minimum Wage, Exempt Pay Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Accounting-Calculator-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1745\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Accounting-Calculator-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Accounting-Calculator-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Accounting-Calculator-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Many states and localities are set to increase their minimum wages on January 1, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In California, Colorado, Maine, New York and Washington, the minimum salary required to be classified as exempt from overtime is tied to the minimum wage or is otherwise adjusted annually with the minimum wage and therefore will also increase on January 1, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article provides\u00a0a summary of these changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Littler:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littler.com\/news-analysis\/asap\/littlers-semi-annual-rates-update-minimum-wage-tips-and-exempt-pay-increases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Littler\u2019s Semi-Annual Rates Update for Minimum Wage, Tips, and Exempt Pay Increases on January 1, 2026 (and Other Developments)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many states and localities are set to increase their minimum wages on January 1, 2026. In California, Colorado, Maine, New York and Washington, the minimum salary required to be classified as exempt from overtime is tied to the minimum wage or is otherwise adjusted annually with the minimum wage and therefore will also increase on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[239,34,306,304,305,307,35,59,308],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-239","tag-california","tag-colorado","tag-exempt-pay","tag-increases","tag-maine","tag-minimum-wage","tag-new-york","tag-washington"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}