Home > Resources > HR compliance > Wage and hour > Minimum wage > Minimum salary for executive, admin and professional employees by state
Financial ratios

Minimum salary for executive, admin and professional employees by state

Quickly find minimum weekly salary requirements for EAP exemptions with a full state-by-state breakdown, including recent amendments.

Share this:

by Susie Wine, Littler

Staying compliant with evolving wage and hour requirements is essential for every HR and payroll team operating across multiple states. This comprehensive 50 state chart provides up to date minimum salary levels for overtime exempt executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) employees, helping you quickly determine whether federal or state thresholds apply to your workforce.

Updated regularly to reflect new legislation including recent salary level changes, our Fifty state chart on minimum salary levels for executive, administrative and professional employees (EAP) simplifies complex compliance obligations by converting state specific requirements into easy to compare weekly salary amounts. HR professionals can rely on it to identify covered employers, review upcoming changes, and ensure accurate exemption classifications across all jurisdictions.

Strengthen your compliance strategy with a trusted, time saving tool designed to give HR leaders clear visibility into salary thresholds nationwide so you can stay proactive, minimise risk, and support confident decision making. law.

Screenshot of the Brightmine Fifty State Chart for minimum salary levels executive administrative professional employees

Want to see more?

For full access to Minimum salary levels for executive, administrative and professional employees by state, sign up to a HR and Compliance Center subscription today.

Latest updates

Updated to reflect minimum salary changes in multiple states, effective January 1, 2026.

Get ahead of HR compliance

Navigating today’s complex HR compliance landscape is challenging.

Get ahead with Brightmine. Access HR resources and automation tools managed by seasoned human HR experts.

Proudly partnered with LexisNexis®

You may also be interested in…

HR law guides

Minimum wage: California

This checklist helps employers prepare for a merger or acquisition by identifying and organizing key HR‑related information needed …

Charts

Minimum wage rates by state and municipality

Need clarity on minimum wage rules? Our comprehensive 50‑state guide helps HR teams track state and municipal wage …

HR law guides

Washington minimum wage: Updated rates, rules & local wage requirements

Get updated Washington minimum wage guidance for employers. Understand statewide increases, local higher-wage jurisdictions, and overtime‑exempt salary thresholds.

About the author

Littler

Littler, the largest global employment and labor law practice, exclusively represents the global employer community in all aspects of employment and labor law. Littler litigates, mediates and negotiates some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record.

Littler’s practice areas are extensive and their expertise crosses over multiple industries and spans a wide array of employment law areas such as discrimination and harassment, labor management relations, executive compensation, ERISA and benefit plan litigation, leaves of absence and disability accommodation, hiring, performance management and termination, employment practices audits and wage and hour.

Littler is the exclusive author of Brightmine’s prestigious Employee Handbook. Their experience with preparing employee handbooks and their ongoing contributions to Brightmine in the areas of federal and state leaves of absence, disabilities and multistate employer issues made them a natural fit to partner with us on the creation of a robust set of model handbook policy statements and guidance for federal, state and key municipalities.

Sign up to receive expert HR insights from Brightmine

Join our community and stay updated with industry trends, expert insights, valuable resources, webinar invites… and much more.

Sign up now and receive regular updates straight to your inbox!

    LNRS Data Services Limited and its affiliates may contact you about relevant solutions, services, events and industry insights. You can opt-out via the unsubscribe link in the communications that you receive or by contacting us.