Pennsylvania Approves White-Collar Final Rule

A final rule to update Pennsylvania white-collar overtime exemptions to $875 from the $684 federal threshold was approved Jan. 31 by a state commission.

The panel’s approval, 3 to 2, was required before the final rule could take effect. The rule is to take effect after it is published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin after a 30-day review by the state attorney general.

Under the rule, the 2020 threshold for salaried executives, administrative, and professional workers to qualify as exempt from overtime requirements is to rise to $875 a week, or $45,500 a year, from the federal threshold of $684 a ...