Overtime Calculator
Split the hours you worked in a week into regular and overtime hours, using a weekly threshold and an optional daily one. Enter your hourly rate to see your regular pay, overtime pay, and total pay.
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Choose By day to enter the hours for each day of one
workweek, or Weekly total to enter the week's hours in
one field. Enter hours like
8:30for 8 hours 30 minutes or8.5in decimal hours. Leave days off blank. - Check the Weekly threshold, the hours a week before overtime starts. It starts at 40 hours, the usual US federal threshold.
- If you get overtime after a number of hours in a day, enter it as the Daily threshold. It works only with hours entered by day.
- Check the Overtime multiplier. It starts at 1.5, time and a half. Enter 2 for double time.
- Optionally, enter your Hourly rate to see your pay.
The calculator takes hours, not clock times. To add up your hours from start and end times and breaks, use the Time Card Calculator, then enter each day's hours here. For a two-week pay period, work out each week separately.
How to calculate overtime hours
Overtime is the hours you work past the weekly threshold. With a 40-hour threshold, 46 hours in a week is 6 hours of overtime and 40 regular hours:
Overtime hours = hours worked − weekly threshold
If you also get overtime after a number of hours in a day, the calculator works it out in this order, so no hour is counted twice:
- Each day, hours past the daily threshold are overtime.
- The rest of each day's hours are added up for the week, and hours past the weekly threshold are also overtime.
Five 10-hour days with an 8-hour daily threshold are 10 hours of daily overtime. The other 40 hours aren't past the 40-hour weekly threshold, so the overtime is 10 hours, not 20. US federal rules also let an employer count overtime pay for hours past a daily threshold toward the overtime pay owed for hours past 40 in the week (29 CFR 778.202). In this order, the overtime is the larger of the hours past the daily threshold and the week's hours minus the weekly threshold, whatever order the days come in.
Overtime is counted one workweek at a time. Under the US Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), a workweek is a fixed period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods. It doesn't have to match the calendar week and can start on any day and at any hour. Hours can't be averaged over two or more weeks (US Department of Labor; 29 CFR 778.104), so 50 hours one week and 30 the next is 10 hours of overtime. That's why there are seven day fields and no more.
How overtime pay is calculated
Overtime hours are paid at the overtime rate, your hourly rate times the overtime multiplier:
Overtime rate = hourly rate × overtime multiplier
Total pay = regular hours × hourly rate + overtime hours × overtime rate
At $20.00 an hour, time and a half is $30.00 an hour, so 40 regular hours and 6 overtime hours are $800.00 + $180.00 = $980.00. The pay comes from the exact minutes, not from hours rounded to two decimal places, so it can differ from a payroll system by a few cents.
Under the FLSA, overtime is based on your regular rate, which includes all pay for your work except some payments the law leaves out (US Department of Labor Fact Sheet #23). Promised bonuses, such as attendance and production bonuses, and extras like night shift differentials are part of the regular rate (29 CFR 778.211 and 778.207), so your overtime rate can be more than 1.5 times your hourly rate. Discretionary bonuses, gifts, and pay for vacation, holidays, or sick days aren't part of it. The calculator doesn't decide which of your payments count, so check with your employer.
If you're paid a salary, by the piece, or by commission, overtime comes from an average hourly rate worked out from your pay for the week (Fact Sheet #23). The calculator doesn't work that out. It's for hourly pay.
Examples
A 46-hour week
9, 9, 9, 9, and 10 hours add up to 46 hours. With a 40-hour weekly threshold, that's 6:00, or 6.00 hours, of overtime. At $20.00 an hour, regular pay is 40 × $20.00 = $800.00 and overtime pay is 6 × $30.00 = $180.00, for a total of $980.00.
A daily and a weekly threshold
Five 9-hour days and one 6-hour day with an 8-hour daily threshold are 5 hours past the daily threshold. The rest is 5 × 8 + 6 = 46 hours, which is 6 hours past the 40-hour weekly threshold. That's 11:00, or 11.00 hours, of overtime. At $20.00 an hour, that's $800.00 + 11 × $30.00 = $1,130.00.
Three 12-hour shifts
With an 8-hour daily threshold, each 12-hour shift has 4 hours of overtime, so three shifts are 12:00 of overtime and 24:00 of regular hours: $480.00 + $360.00 = $840.00 at $20.00 an hour. Without a daily threshold, or with the week entered as a total of 36 hours, there's no overtime, and the pay is $720.00.
FAQ
Multiply your overtime hours by your hourly rate times 1.5, or your overtime multiplier. With 46 hours in a week at $20.00 an hour, 6 hours are past 40, so overtime pay is 6 × $30.00 = $180.00, and total pay is $800.00 + $180.00 = $980.00.
1.5 times your regular rate. At $20.00 an hour, time and a half is $30.00 an hour. Double time is 2 times, or $40.00 an hour.
Not by itself under the FLSA. US federal law doesn't require overtime pay for work on Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, or regular days of rest unless those hours are overtime, such as hours past 40 in the workweek. Your employer or state may pay extra for those days, so check their rules.
No, not under the FLSA. Each workweek stands on its own, so 50 hours one week and 30 the next is 10 hours of overtime, even though the two weeks average 40. Enter each week separately.
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