Woman earns good money for hard work

I couldn't click on the link to the top story at the Chicago Sun-Times for total lack of interest.  Here's what was written on the Sun-Times homepage:

Oprah's OT queen

For most people, $32,000 would be a very generous bonus, but it apparently covered just overtime for one employee of Oprah Winfrey's extremely well-heeled Chicago broadcast empire.  A news report last week said Carla Bird, a key assistant to Winfrey's co-executive producer Lisa Erspamer, collected that huge sum for a seemingly improbable 800 hours of overtime worked over 17 weeks between January and April of this year.

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800 divided by 17 is about 47.  So we're talking about 87 hours a week; tough, but by no means impossible or unheard of (ask an investment banker).  At time and a half over 47 hours, it works out to $450 an hour; good money, for sure, as it implies an annual take of $900,000 at a conventional 2,000 hours a year...but by no means unheard of or particularly outrageous.

So how is this news?  Maybe someone else who was actually enticed to read the article can tell me.