Yes I was mistaken on the rules for professional exemptions so I apologize. They really don't apply to my company anyway since I can opt to pay less for certain

Yes I was mistaken on the rules for professional exemptions so I apologize. They really don't apply to my company anyway since I can opt to pay less for certain roles than the minimum salary required for exemptions. Overtime spikes won't be a big deal because all of our employees (any skill-level) rarely go over 40 hours each week. If they do at times, it's not by much. For many positions I think 32 hours / week is better anyway and if there's overtime then it won't matter much at all, because we're not paying over the minimum to get exemptions and then trying to extract 50-60+ hours per week from our employees like many firms do.