; (B) considering more than 270,000 comments received during the 60-day public comment period on the proposed rule; and (C) making significant changes in response to public input before issuing the final rule. (11) The public comments submitted to the Secretary of Labor regarding the proposed rule were overwhelmingly positive and supportive of the rule. (12) The increase in the salary threshold, included in the final rule, to the 40th percentile of earnings of full-time salaried employees in the lowest-wage Census Region, resulting in a threshold of $913 per week or $47,476 per year, was a strong yet measured increase by almost any measure, including as compared to— (A) the higher salary threshold of $970 per week or $50,440 per year, initially put forward by the Secretary of Labor in the proposed rule; (B) the salary threshold of $984 per week or $51,168 per year, which would have fully accounted for the erosion to the value of the salary threshold since 1975 due to inflation; (C) the salary threshold of $1,122 per week or $58,344 per year, which would have covered the same share of all salaried workers as were covered in 1975 after adjusting for the different educational composition of the workforce today