The new rule does have a few other tweaks. It raises the minimum salary for the “highly compensated” exemption from $100,000 to $107,432. It also allows certain bonuses and commissions to be counted toward the minimum salary levels, where before they could not be counted.
Come New Year’s Day, some employees are getting a raise, some will start taking home overtime, and others will be taking the boss to court. Any way you slice this, employers will be footing the bill.