PROFESSIONAL TESTS

Subpart 1. Professional test I. Professional test I: A. receives at least $250 per week in salary or fee; B. either: (1) performs work requiring advanced knowledge in a field of science or learning; (2) performs work as a teacher in the activity of imparting knowledge; or (3) performs work requiring invention, imagination, or talent in a recognized field of artistic endeavor; and C. consistently exercises discretion and judgment. Subp. 2. Professional test II. Professional test II: A. receives at least $170 per week in salary or fee; B. either: (1) performs work requiring advanced knowledge in a field of learning customarily acquired by prolonged specialized intellectual study, not a general academic education, an apprenticeship, or training in routine mental or physical processes; (2) performs original work dependent on the person's own creativeness in a recognized field of artistic endeavor; or (3) is a certified teacher working as such or recognized as such in the school system where the person works; C. consistently exercises judgment and discretion; D. performs predominantly intellectual work so varied that the output cannot be standardized by time necessary for accomplishment; and E. devotes less than 20 percent of the hours worked to activities not essential to the person's professional work.