---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 783.22"
title: "29"
number: "783.22"
heading: "Pay standards for employees subject to “old” coverage of the Act."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/783.22"
---

# §783.22. Pay standards for employees subject to “old” coverage of the Act.


The 1961 amendments did not change the tests described in [§ 783.18](/cfr/29/783.18.md) by which coverage based on the employee's individual activities is determined. Any employee whose employment satisfies these tests and would not have come within some exemption (such as [section 13(a)(14)](/cfr/29/13.md?p=a-14)) in the Act prior to the 1961 amendments is subject to the “old” provisions of the law and entitled to a minimum wage of at least $1.15 an hour beginning September 3, 1961, and not less than $1.25 an hour beginning September 3, 1963 ([29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)](/usc/29/206.md?p=a-1)), unless expressly exempted by some provision of the amended Act. Such an employee is also entitled to overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 in any workweek at a rate not less than one and one-half times his regular rate of pay ([29 U.S.C. 207(a)(1)](/usc/29/207.md?p=a-1)), unless expressly exempt from overtime by some exemption such as [section 13(b)(6)](/cfr/29/13.md?p=b-6). (Minimum wage rates in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa are governed by special provisions of the Act ([26 U.S.C. 206(a)(3)](/usc/26/206.md?p=a-3); 206(c)(2).) Information on these rates is available at any office of the Wage and Hour Division.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 1-19, 52 Stat. 1060, as amended; 29 U.S.C. 201-219.

### Source

Source: 27 FR 8309, Aug. 21, 1962, unless otherwise noted.