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Primary Duty

•The principal, main, major or most important duty that the employee performs.

•Factors to consider include, but are not limited to:

Relative importance of the exempt duties;

Amount of time spent performing exempt work;

Relative freedom from direct supervision; and

Relationship between the employee’s salary and the wages paid to other employees for the same kind of nonexempt work.


	Primary duty means the principal, main, major or most important duty that the employee performs. An employee’s primary duty is determined by looking at all the facts, with the major emphasis on the character of the employee’s job as a whole.
	Important factors to consider when determining the primary duty include: the relative importance of the exempt duties as compared with other types of duties; the amount of time spent performing exempt work; the employee’s relative freedom from direct supervision; and the relationship between the employee’s salary and the wages paid to other non-exempt workers for the same kind of nonexempt work.