--- title: Overtime Regulations Change Will Make Millions More Eligible description: The maximum salary for exemption will double canonical: https://time.com/3940889/obama-regulation-overtime/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-30T00:00:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:39:13.476Z article:section: Politics og:title: Millions More Americans Will Qualify for Overtime og:description: The salary exemption from overtime will more than double to $50,440. og:url: https://time.com/3940889/obama-regulation-overtime/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95744ebe79e7d040/698858ffe53abaa05e4de699/overtime.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2084 og:image:height: 1172 og:image:alt: overtime og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Millions More Americans Will Qualify for Overtime twitter:description: The salary exemption from overtime will more than double to $50,440. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95744ebe79e7d040/698858ffe53abaa05e4de699/overtime.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Millions More Americans Will Qualify for Overtime > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jun 30, 2015 12:00 AM UTC  An office worker sits working in an empty office An office worker sits working in an empty office Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jun 30, 2015 12:00 AM UTC Millions more American workers will be eligible for overtime under new eligibility rules to be released Tuesday, according to reports. Under current federal regulations, workers making more than $23,660 are not guaranteed overtime. The new rules will boost that to $50,440, Bloomberg reports. Proponents of the regulation say it would protect workers below the poverty line who are not currently compensated for their work beyond 40 hours per week. Critics say it could cause some businesses to [hire more part-time workers](http://time.com/3915920/barack-obama-overtime-rules/) rather than pay their managers overtime. The rules, which received their last major update in the 1970s, are part of a second-term effort by President Obama to help working-class Americans without going through Congress. \[[_Bloomberg_](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-29/obama-said-set-to-expand-overtime-eligibility-for-millions)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3940889/obama-regulation-overtime/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3940889/obama-regulation-overtime/"},"headline":"Millions More Americans Will Qualify for Overtime","datePublished":"2015-06-30T00:00:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:39:13.476Z","description":"The maximum salary for exemption will more than double","url":"https://time.com/3940889/obama-regulation-overtime/","keywords":["White House","Labor","overtime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95744ebe79e7d040/698858ffe53abaa05e4de699/overtime.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95744ebe79e7d040/698858ffe53abaa05e4de699/overtime.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"overtime","caption":"overtime","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3940889/obama-regulation-overtime/","name":"Millions More Americans Will Qualify for Overtime"}}]}] ```