The DOL invited responses to eleven questions, including whether updating the 2004 salary level for inflation should be an appropriate basis for setting the salary level. Most questions the DOL posed went beyond the proposed increase in the salary level, including whether the salary level should vary based on the size of the employer, geographic region, or any other method, and whether the DOL should return to the pre-2014 long and short test salary levels. Based on the questions posed, the DOL may be amenable to permitting non-discretionary bonuses and incentive payments to satisfy a percentage of the salary level, which was a component of the 2016 Final Rule.