---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 C.F.R. § 100.54"
title: "11"
number: "100.54"
heading: "Compensation for personal services."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/11/100.54"
---

# §100.54. Compensation for personal services.


The payment by any person of compensation for the personal services of another person if those services are rendered without charge to a political committee for any purpose, except for legal and accounting services provided under 11 CFR [100.85](/cfr/11/100.85.md) and [100.86](/cfr/11/100.86.md), is a contribution. No compensation is considered paid to any employee under any of the following conditions:

- (a) **Paid on an hourly or salaried basis.** If an employee is paid on an hourly or salaried basis and is expected to work a particular number of hours per period, no contribution results if the employee engages in political activity during what would otherwise be a regular work period, provided that the taken or released time is made up or completed by the employee within a reasonable time.
- (b) **Paid on commission or piecework basis.** No contribution results where an employee engages in political activity during what would otherwise be normal working hours if the employee is paid on a commission or piecework basis, or is paid only for work actually performed and the employee's time is considered his or her own to use as he or she sees fit.
- (c) **Vacation or earned leave time.** No contribution results where the time used by the employee to engage in political activity is bona fide, although compensable, vacation time or other earned leave time.

## Notes

### Amendments

[67 FR 50585, Aug. 5, 2002, as amended at 81 FR 34863, June 1, 2016]

### Source

Source: 67 FR 50585, Aug. 5, 2002, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 52 U.S.C. 30101, 30102(g), 30104, 30111(a)(8), and 30114(c).

### Source

Source: 45 FR 15094, Mar. 7, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[67 FR 50585, Aug. 5, 2002, as amended at 81 FR 34863, June 1, 2016]