# Exempt employee

> Exempt employee — An employee the FLSA's overtime and minimum-wage rules don't cover — for the executive, administrative and professional exemptions, one paid a salary of at least $684 a week whose primary duties meet the exemption's test. A job title decides nothing.

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**What is exempt employee?** In accounting, exempt employee means an employee the FLSA's overtime and minimum-wage rules don't cover — for the executive, administrative and professional exemptions, one paid a salary of at least $684 a week whose primary duties meet the exemption's test. A job title decides nothing.

## Words this system refuses for it

- salaried (a salaried employee can be non-exempt)

- **Category:** Payroll
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/11-lexicon)