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29CFR541.600 - Amount of salary required.

• Section Number: 541.600
• Section Name: Amount of salary required.

    (a) To qualify as an exempt executive, administrative or 
professional employee under section 13(a)(1) of the Act, an employee 
must be compensated on a salary 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. Administrative and professional employees may also be 
paid on a fee basis, as defined in Sec.  541.605.
    (b) The $455 a week may be translated into equivalent amounts for 
periods longer than one week. The requirement will be met if the 
employee is compensated biweekly on a salary basis of $910, semimonthly 
on a salary basis of $985.83, or monthly on a salary basis of 
$1,971.66. However, the shortest period of payment that will meet this 
compensation requirement is one week.
    (c) In the case of academic administrative employees, the 
compensation requirement also may be met by compensation on a salary 
basis at a rate at least equal to the entrance salary for teachers in 
the educational establishment by which the employee is employed, as 
provided in Sec.  541.204(a)(1).
    (d) In the case of computer employees, the compensation requirement 
also may be met by compensation on an hourly basis at a rate not less 
than $27.63 an hour, as provided in Sec.  541.400(b).
    (e) In the case of professional employees, the compensation 
requirements in this section shall not apply to employees engaged as 
teachers (see Sec.  541.303); employees who hold a valid license or 
certificate permitting the practice of law or medicine or any of their 
branches and are actually engaged in the practice thereof (see Sec.  
541.304); or to employees who hold the requisite academic degree for 
the general practice of medicine and are engaged in an internship or 
resident program pursuant to the practice of the profession (see Sec.  
541.304). In the case of medical occupations, the exception from the 
salary or fee requirement does not apply to pharmacists, nurses, 
therapists, technologists, sanitarians, dietitians, social workers, 
psychologists, psychometrists, or other professions which service the 
medical profession.