What Employment is Exempt from Coverage?
• Domestic service in a private home, fraternity or sorority if the total cash remuneration for personal services is less than $1,000 per quarter in each quarter of a calendar year. • Agricultural labor as defined by the Act provided that the employer pays less than $20,000 per quarter, in each quarter of a calendar year, for agricultural labor and does not have 10 agricultural employees in each of 20 weeks during the year. • Services performed by an individual owner (proprietor) and the owner’s spouse, parent(s) or minor child (under age 21). • Services performed by a general partner. A worker who bears an exempt relationship to all general partners (a minor child in a husband and wife partnership, for example), would also be exempt. • Services performed by a member of a limited liability company (LLC). • Licensed real estate agents, licensed insurance agents, and licensed security brokers paid on a commission basis. Hourly wages or salaries paid to these individuals are not exempt. •
• Domestic service in a private home, fraternity or sorority if the total cash remuneration for personal services is less than $1,000 per quarter in each quarter of a calendar year. Unless in the prior year, you paid wages of $1,000 or more in a calendar quarter. • Agricultural labor as defined by the Act provided that the employer pays less than $20,000 per quarter, in each quarter of a calendar year, for agricultural labor and does not have 10 agricultural employees in each of 20 weeks during that year. Unless in the prior year, you paid wages of $20,000 or more in a calendar quarter or you had 10 or more agricultural employees in each of 20 weeks during that year. • Services performed by an individual owner (proprietor) and the owner’s spouse, parent(s) or minor child (under age 21). • Services performed by a general partner. A worker who bears an exempt relationship to all general partners (a minor child in a husband and wife partnership, for example), would also be exempt. • Servi
