Chart: Preliminary, not final.The federal OT salary threshold relative to average wages, 1949–2016

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Dates	Federal OT salary threshold / US average wage
1949	3.16
1958	1.77
1963	1.77
1970	1.68
1975	1.51
2004	0.66
2016	0.98

Notes: Years provided are years in which the federal OT salary threshold was updated.

Sources: EPI analysis of Social Security Administration National Wage Index data; Employment and Payrolls in Washington State data; Office of Financial Management data;Employment and Payrolls in Washington State data; Table 1 in Social Security Bulletin, November 1949; Wage and Hour Division,81 Fed. Reg. 32449-32450 (May 23, 2018): and Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment and Earnings data

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