{"data":{"id":"us-ca/gov-3521.5","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"GOV § 3521.5","heading":"","body":"The term “professional employee” means (a) any employee engaged in work (1) predominantly intellectual and varied in character as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical, or physical work; (2) involving the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in its performance; (3) of such a character that the output produced or the result accomplished cannot be standardized in relation to a given period of time; (4) requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study in an institution of higher learning or a hospital, as distinguished from a general academic education or from an apprenticeship or from training in the performance of routine mental, manual, or physical processes; or (b) any employee, who (1) has completed the courses of specialized intellectual instruction and study described in paragraph 4 of subdivision (a), and (2) is performing related work under the supervision of a professional person to qualify himself to become a professional employee as defined in subdivision (a).","path":["Government Code - GOV","TITLE 1. GENERAL [100. - 7931.000.]","DIVISION 4. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES [1000. - 3599.84.]","CHAPTER 10.3. State Employer-Employee Relations [3512. - 3524.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"493046b08b2dd935a07301a61def4a093d57bf1cccaf318755209801ff0bc8c5","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/gov-3521","next":"us-ca/gov-3521.7"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}