Labor Department To Consider Salary When Determining Overtime Pay Eligibility

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax form 1040 for 2016 is photographed on Thursday, March 9, 2017, in Frederick, Md. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department says it intends to consider salary level when determining who is eligible for overtime pay. But it hasn’t yet set the maximum earnings a worker can have and still qualify.

That’s according to a brief filed Friday with the federal appeals court in New Orleans in a case that debates whether President Barack Obama’s administration had the right to double the threshold to around $47,000.

The Trump administration is not endorsing that level. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta suggested to a Senate panel that he’d consider raising the threshold from roughly $24,000 to around $30,000 to keep up with inflation.

A federal district court in Texas put the Obama rule on hold last year, saying Labor focused too much on salaries and not enough of job duties.

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