Primary Duty
•Employees who spend more than 50% of their time performing exempt work will generally satisfy the primary duty requirement •However, the regulations do not require that exempt employees spend more than 50% of time performing exempt work
The amount of time spent performing exempt work can be a useful guide, and employees who spend more than 50 percent of their time performing exempt work generally will satisfy the primary duty requirement.  Time alone, however, is not the sole test, and nothing in the regulations requires exempt employees to spend more than 50 percent of their time performing exempt work.