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To qualify the staff member must have a spouse whose occupational earnings, if any, do not exceed the lowest entry level of the United Nations General Service gross salary in force on 1 January of the year concerned for the duty station in the country of the spouse's place of work, provided that in the case of the Professional category or above, the amount shall not at any duty station be less than the equivalent of the lowest entry level at the base of the salary system (G-2, Step 1, for New York).