5. Do not use the percent sign or dollar sign. Spell out dollar or percent. That goes for the & (ampersand and) symbol too. If you think your book is ready for a publisher, you need to review the basics above, put them in your manuscript, then learn how to write a manuscript with more advanced formatting.
The proposed changes to the overtime rule increased the salary threshold for employees who are exemptâand therefore not eligible for overtimeâfrom $23,660 to $50,440. In the final rule, the level dropped to $47,476.
To increase the current exempt salary level from $455 per week ($23,660 annually) to $970 per week ($50,440 annually), which is expected to be the 40 th percentile of weekly earnings in 2016 when the new regulations are anticipated to go into effect. To increase the exemption threshold for highly compensated employees (a special rule for highly paid employees who perform office or non-manual work and customarily and regularly perform at least one of the duties of an exempt executive ...