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FEDERAL · 29 CFR

Part 541 — Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Computer and Outside Sales Employees

50 sections · Title 29: Labor

§ 541.0Introductory statement.
§ 541.1Terms used in regulations.
§ 541.2Job titles insufficient.
§ 541.3Scope of the section 13(a)(1) exemptions.
§ 541.4Other laws and collective bargaining agreements.
§ 541.5Severability.
§ 541.100General rule for executive employees.
§ 541.101Business owner.
§ 541.102Management.
§ 541.103Department or subdivision.
§ 541.104Two or more other employees.
§ 541.105Particular weight.
§ 541.106Concurrent duties.
§ 541.200General rule for administrative employees.
§ 541.201Directly related to management or general business operations.
§ 541.202Discretion and independent judgment.
§ 541.203Administrative exemption examples.
§ 541.204Educational establishments.
§ 541.300General rule for professional employees.
§ 541.301Learned professionals.
§ 541.302Creative professionals.
§ 541.303Teachers.
§ 541.304Practice of law or medicine.
§ 541.400General rule for computer employees.
§ 541.401Computer manufacture and repair.
§ 541.402Executive and administrative computer employees.
§ 541.500General rule for outside sales employees.
§ 541.501Making sales or obtaining orders.
§ 541.502Away from employer's place of business.
§ 541.503Promotion work.
§ 541.504Drivers who sell.
§ 541.600Amount of salary required.
§ 541.601Highly compensated employees.
§ 541.602Salary basis.
§ 541.603Effect of improper deductions from salary.
§ 541.604Minimum guarantee plus extras.
§ 541.605Fee basis.
§ 541.606Board, lodging or other facilities.
§ 541.607Regular updates to amounts of salary and compensation required.
§ 541.700Primary duty.
§ 541.701Customarily and regularly.
§ 541.702Exempt and nonexempt work.
§ 541.703Directly and closely related.
§ 541.704Use of manuals.
§ 541.705Trainees.
§ 541.706Emergencies.
§ 541.707Occasional tasks.
§ 541.708Combination exemptions.
§ 541.709Motion picture producing industry.
§ 541.710Employees of public agencies.