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California Exempt Employee Wage Increases for 2026

By Sehreen Ladak on November 5, 2025
Posted in Wage and Hour

Each year, California’s minimum wage rises, but along with hourly workers’ wages increasing, so too does the salary threshold for employees to be exempt from overtime. For an employee to be exempt from overtime under California law, their job must fall into a specific exempt category and meet a designated wage rate.

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