May 22, 2016, was below the poverty line for a family of 4. (8) The Secretary of Labor updated the salary threshold on May 23, 2016, through a final rule entitled Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales and Computer Employees (81 Fed. Reg. 32391) by increasing the salary threshold to the 40th percentile of earnings of full-time salaried employees in the lowest-wage Census Region, resulting in a salary threshold of $913 per week or $47,476 per year. (9) The final rule would benefit more than 13,000,000 employees by providing overtime compensation protections to 4,200,000 new employees and strengthening overtime compensation protections for 8,900,000 additional employees. (10) The Secretary of Labor went through a thorough process in crafting the final rule, seeking public input and conducting extensive economic analysis, including— (A) spending more than a year meeting with more than 200 interested parties to obtain input before issuing the proposed rule in 2015