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CFR /  Title 29  /  Part 541  /  Sec. 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 Sec. 541.602; ``fee basis'' is defined at Sec. 541.605; ``board, lodging or other facilities'' is defined at Sec. 541.606; and ``primary duty'' is defined at Sec. 541.700.