Overtime Pay Calculator
Time and a half, double time, daily thresholds and the seventh day rule, with bonuses folded into your regular rate the way federal law requires.
Hours worked
Switch to day by day if your state pays daily overtime. A weekly total cannot show that a twelve hour Tuesday was overtime.
Pay
Production bonuses, attendance bonuses, commission and shift differentials are part of your regular rate under federal law, which makes every overtime hour that week worth more. Leave it blank for a discretionary gift or a holiday bonus.
Which rules apply
Time and a half past 40 hours in a workweek. No daily overtime, and no extra for weekends or nights unless your employer agreed to it.
The breakdown
- Regular 40 h at $25.00
- $1,000.00
- Overtime 6 h at 1.5x
- $225.00
- Gross
- $1,225.00
Check it against your payslip
This models the main overtime rules, not all of them. Exempt status, union agreements, alternative workweek schedules and the finer points of your state's law can all change the answer, so treat this as a check rather than as advice. Your entries stay in your browser.
The argument is never about the rate. It is about the hours.
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Most overtime calculators multiply your rate by 1.5 and stop there. That is right for the simplest case and wrong for a surprising number of real paychecks, because two things move the answer: where you work, and what else you were paid that week.
Where you work decides whether long days count on their own. Four twelve hour shifts in California is sixteen hours of overtime and no weekly overtime at all, since the week never reached forty. Run the same week under federal rules and it is worth nothing extra. Pick the rules in the dropdown and switch to day by day, and the table shows which hours came from which threshold.
What else you were paid decides what an overtime hour is worth. A promised bonus has to be spread across the hours you worked and lifts your regular rate, and overtime is a multiple of that lifted rate. It is one of the most commonly missed calculations in payroll, and one of the easiest to check yourself.
Overtime rules worth knowing before you check a payslip
A workweek is fixed, and it is not always Monday. Your employer defines a recurring seven day period, and overtime is worked out inside it. Hours cannot be averaged across two weeks to avoid overtime, which is a common and unlawful shortcut in places that pay every fortnight.
Only hours worked count. Paid holiday, vacation and sick hours show up on the payslip but do not push you toward the 40 hour threshold under federal law. A 44 hour payslip can legitimately contain no overtime.
Daily and weekly overtime do not stack. An hour already paid at time and a half for being your tenth hour on Tuesday is not counted again toward the weekly forty. This calculator holds those hours out, which is why the daily rows and the weekly total can look like they disagree.
Comp time is not generally legal in the private sector. Time off in lieu instead of overtime pay is something public sector employers can offer under specific conditions. A private employer usually owes the money.
Your job title does not decide whether you are exempt. Exemption depends on how you are paid and what you actually do all day, not on being called a manager or being put on a salary. Plenty of salaried people are owed overtime and do not know it.
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Questions
How is overtime pay calculated?
Under federal law, hours past 40 in a workweek are paid at one and a half times your regular rate. The part people miss is that the regular rate is not always your base hourly rate: it is all your straight-time earnings for the week divided by all the hours you worked, which pulls in nondiscretionary bonuses, commission and shift differentials. Earn a $200 production bonus in a 45 hour week at $20 an hour and your regular rate is $24.44, not $20, and every overtime hour is worth $36.67 rather than $30.
Do I get overtime for working more than 8 hours in a day?
Only in some states. Federal law counts weeks, not days, so a 12 hour Tuesday followed by three short days is not overtime under the FLSA. California pays time and a half past 8 hours in a day and double time past 12, Alaska and Nevada have daily 8 hour rules, and Colorado has a 12 hour rule. Pick your state in the rules dropdown and use day by day mode, because a weekly total cannot show a long day at all.
What is double time and when does it apply?
Double time is twice your regular rate. No federal law requires it. In California it applies past 12 hours in a day, and past 8 hours on a seventh consecutive day in the same workweek. Everywhere else it is generally a matter of your contract or a union agreement, in which case put the thresholds into the custom rules.
Does a bonus really change my overtime rate?
If it is nondiscretionary, yes. A bonus you were promised for hitting production, attendance, quality or safety targets is part of the regular rate, and so is commission and a shift differential. It has to be spread across the hours you worked, which raises the value of every overtime hour that week. A genuinely discretionary bonus, like an unannounced holiday gift, is not included. Enter the promised kind in the bonus field and leave the gift out.
Do paid holidays and vacation count toward the 40 hours?
No. Overtime is owed on hours actually worked, so a week with 8 hours of holiday pay and 36 hours worked is 44 hours on the payslip but no overtime under federal law. Enter only the hours you worked. Some contracts are more generous than the law here, so check yours if the numbers do not match.
How is this different from the time card calculator?
The time card calculator starts from clock in and clock out times and works out how many hours that was, with a simple weekly overtime line at the end. This page starts from hours you already know and works out what the rules owe you: daily thresholds, double time, the seventh day rule and the effect of a bonus on the regular rate. Use the time card to get the hours, then bring them here.
What if my paycheck does not match this?
First check the basics, because they explain most gaps: your workweek may not start on the day you assumed, holiday and vacation hours do not count toward overtime, and a bonus may relate to a different period. If it still does not reconcile, ask your employer for the calculation in writing. If that goes nowhere, the federal Wage and Hour Division and your state labor office both take complaints, and there are time limits on claims, so do not sit on it. This page is information, not legal advice.