Slide 1

Customarily

•Exemption is also available to employees in learned professions who:

Have substantially the same knowledge level and

Perform substantially the same work as the degreed professionals,

But attained the advanced knowledge through a combination of work experience and intellectual instruction

•Examples:

Lawyer who did not attend law school

Chemist who does not have a chemistry degree

The word “customarily” means that this exemption is also available to employees in such professions who possess substantially the same knowledge level and perform substantially the same work as the degreed employees, but who attain the advanced knowledge through a combination of work experience and intellectual instruction. Such employees may include the occasional lawyer who has not gone to law school, or the occasional chemist who does not have a degree in chemistry.