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Title 29: Labor
Subtitle B: Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued)
CHAPTER V: WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
SUBCHAPTER A: REGULATIONS
PART 541: DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE EXEMPTIONS FOR EXECUTIVE, ADMINISTRATIVE, PROFESSIONAL, COMPUTER AND OUTSIDE SALES EMPLOYEES
Subpart D: Professional Employees
541.300 - General rule for professional employees.
(a) The term ?employee employed in a bona fide professional capacity? in section 13(a)(1) of the Act shall mean any employee:
(1) Compensated on a salary or fee basis at a rate of not less than $455 per week (or $380 per week, if employed in American Samoa by employers other than the Federal Government), exclusive of board, lodging, or other facilities; and
(2) Whose primary duty is the performance of work:
(i) Requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction; or
(ii) Requiring invention, imagination, originality or talent in a recognized field of artistic or creative endeavor.
(b) The term ?salary basis? is defined at ? 541.602; ?fee basis? is defined at ? 541.605; ?board, lodging or other facilities? is defined at ? 541.606; and ?primary duty? is defined at ? 541.700.
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