Two or More
•The phrase “two or more other employees” means two full-time employees or the equivalent
•Full-time generally means 40 hours per week
•The supervision of the same employees can be distributed among two or more exempt executives, but the hours worked by an employee cannot be credited more than once
The term “two or more other employees” means that the exempt manager must supervise two full-time employees or the equivalent. Full-time generally means 40 hours per week.   However, the Department will recognize industry standards defining full-time employment as 37 ½ hours or 35 hours per week, for example, but not less than that. So an exempt executive generally must supervise other employees who work a total of 80 work hours not including the hours the executive works herself.  Supervision can be distributed among two or more exempt executives, as long as each executive is responsible for supervising 80 work hours of other employees each week.  Thus, for example, a department with five full-time nonexempt workers may have up to two exempt supervisors.  Of course, the work hours of nonexempt employees cannot be counted more than once. Thus, if two supervisors share responsibility for two full-time nonexempt workers, neither of the supervisors would be exempt.