 the change benefits millions of low-income salaried workers the salary threshold is going up to include those making about forty three thousand dollars a year instead of roughly 35 they now have to be paid time and a half an hour in overtime for working more than 40 hours a week labor advocates said the cutoff was too low before and that lower paid salaried workers shouldn't be exempt from overtime protections in January the threshold will rise again to about 58,000