{"data":{"id":"us/29-cfr-541.300","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"29 CFR 541.300","heading":"General rule for professional employees.","body":"(a) The term “employee employed in a bona fide professional capacity” in section 13(a)(1) of the Act shall mean any employee:\n(1) Compensated on a salary or fee basis pursuant to § 541.600 at a rate of not less than $684 per week (or $455 per week if employed in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands by employers other than the Federal government, or $380 per week if employed in American Samoa by employers other than the Federal government), exclusive of board, lodging or other facilities; and\n(2) Whose primary duty is the performance of work:\n(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\n(ii) Requiring invention, imagination, originality or talent in a recognized field of artistic or creative endeavor.\n(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.","path":["Title 29—Labor","Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Labor","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"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-29.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:20Z","sha256":"bd8501ab364754c2a364b4c238a79d71c9e4658434ea008b3d48dc8a06a3c3ca","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/29-cfr-541.204","next":"us/29-cfr-541.301"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}