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Employees in computer software fields will be exempt from the overtime requirements* of the Orders if they: a. earn forty-five dollars and forty-one cents ($45.41) per hour for each hour worked, to be adjusted annually by the Division of Labor Statistics and Research (DLSR) on October 1 of each year to become effective January 1 of the following year by an amount equal to the percentage increase in the California Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers. This adjustment will be posted on the DLSR website annually, and. b. are primarily engaged in work that is intellectual or creative and requires the exercise of discretion and independent judgment, and c. meet the duties test set out at Section 2(h)(ii) of the Orders, and d. are highly skilled and proficient in the theoretical and practical application of highly specialized information to computer systems analysis, programming, and software engineering within the meaning of