&gt; What about adjusting employee exempt status for inflation? At present, if you&#x27;re paid a salary of more than $23,660 per year, your employer isn&#x27;t required to pay overtime;<p>That&#x27;s only true in certain exemptions, such as the computer-related occupation exemption and the executive&#x2F;administrative&#x2F;professional exemption. FLSA exemptions have either both a kind-of-work and pay qualification (as for the computer occupations exemption), or just a kind-of-work qualification (as in the motor carrier exemption), none have just a pay qualification.<p>&gt; raising this to a sane figure ($70,000?) would create a lot of jobs and improve quality of life for employees<p>Alternatively, it would <i>eliminate</i> a lot of the jobs in the covered areas that are currently paid less than the new threshold. (I tend to think it would be a net win overall, but it wouldn&#x27;t be one sided in its effects.)