What sport for the WC if you don't mind me asking?
Softball
That's exactly what DH says also. Yet before he retired, he worked an average of 60 hours a week, and his pay was exempt. When asked what it meant, he always said "exempt" from being paid overtime. And the 60 hours doesn't count the middle of the night or middle of eating dinner phone calls because something or someone went wrong in the plant, a vital piece of equipment went down, etc. The joys of being a plant manager whose company heads keep cutting manpower.
Yes, I worked in an exempt position for 16 years. You are hired to do a special job. You got paid the same if you could do that job in one minute, or if you needed 16 hours or more. Here in California, some companies have gotten away from exempt positions because the state now says an exempt employee has to be paid at least $64,480 a year and very few of those exempt jobs pay that much. I also, briefly (9 months) worked a job with specific assignments, and if I was given additional assignments they paid an additional $150 a day in compensation, they called it Premium Pay.
Where in Illinois?
55-60 hours for a salary position.... 6 weeks off per year plus all federal holidays and five personal days.
