Millions would be stripped of overtime under Project 2025 provisions
| Minimum number of workers stripped of overtime protections under Project 2025 proposals | |
|---|---|
| All | 7,979,000 |
| Gender | |
| Female | 3,701,000 |
| Male | 4,278,000 |
| Race/ethnicity | |
| Workers of color | 2,870,000 |
| Black | 958,000 |
| Hispanic | 1,301,000 |
| Asian | 526,000 |
| Other | 85,000 |
| White non-Hispanic | 5,110,000 |
| Age | |
| 16–24 | 698,000 |
| 25–34 | 2,292,000 |
| 35–44 | 1,762,000 |
| 45–54 | 1,625,000 |
| 55+ | 1,602,000 |
| Education | |
| High school or less | 2,404,000 |
| Some college | 2,407,000 |
| College | 2,325,000 |
| Advanced | 843,000 |
| Parental status | |
| Custodial parent of child under 18 | 3,936,000 |
| Father | 2,091,000 |
| Mother | 1,845,000 |
| Not a custodial parent of child under 18 | 4,044,000 |
| State | |
| Alabama | 105,000 |
| Alaska | 15,000 |
| Arizona | 208,000 |
| Arkansas | 70,000 |
| California | 753,000 |
| Colorado | 157,000 |
| Connecticut | 80,000 |
| Delaware | 27,000 |
| District of Columbia | 13,000 |
| Florida | 446,000 |
| Georgia | 208,000 |
| Hawaii | 27,000 |
| Idaho | 53,000 |
| Illinois | 331,000 |
| Indiana | 205,000 |
| Iowa | 104,000 |
| Kansas | 92,000 |
| Kentucky | 103,000 |
| Louisiana | 86,000 |
| Maine | 37,000 |
| Maryland | 122,000 |
| Massachusetts | 179,000 |
| Michigan | 274,000 |
| Minnesota | 155,000 |
| Mississippi | 53,000 |
| Missouri | 203,000 |
| Montana | 29,000 |
| Nebraska | 67,000 |
| Nevada | 72,000 |
| New Hampshire | 39,000 |
| New Jersey | 197,000 |
| New Mexico | 46,000 |
| New York | 388,000 |
| North Carolina | 227,000 |
| North Dakota | 25,000 |
| Ohio | 361,000 |
| Oklahoma | 105,000 |
| Oregon | 109,000 |
| Pennsylvania | 364,000 |
| Rhode Island | 27,000 |
| South Carolina | 127,000 |
| South Dakota | 29,000 |
| Tennessee | 178,000 |
| Texas | 723,000 |
| Utah | 97,000 |
| Vermont | 17,000 |
| Virginia | 186,000 |
| Washington | 196,000 |
| West Virginia | 47,000 |
| Wisconsin | 200,000 |
| Wyoming | 15,000 |
Notes: Subtotals may not add up to totals due to rounding. The values in the “parental status” section are all proportionately inflated to account for the fact that information on parental status is missing for a nontrivial share of observations.
Source: EPI analysis of pooled Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group microdata, 2020–2022, following the methodology used in the U.S. Department of Labor’s 2024 rule, “Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales and Computer Employees,” 29 CFR Part 541 (published April 26, 2024).
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