Overtime Pay Calculator

Overtime pay is the 1.5× line

Overtime pay, in the default this overtime pay calculator uses, is overtime hours × hourly rate × 1.5. It is the full price of those hours. It is not a tip added after the hour was already paid at straight time. On a $20 rate, one overtime hour is $30 of overtime pay. The extra $10 above straight time is inside that $30. The result also shows straight time for the whole week, so you can see the premium without double-counting the hour.

The spot check is five overtime hours inside a 45-hour week at $20. Regular pay is $800. Overtime pay is $150. Gross pay is $950. The headline number on this page is the $150, because that is the overtime pay. The overtime calculator is the same arithmetic with the $950 gross in the headline instead. Use whichever question you actually have.

How the hours are chosen

The hours box is the workweek total, not “overtime hours only,” unless you set the threshold to zero. With the threshold at 40, a 45 in the box produces 5 overtime hours. If you already know the overtime hours and you want only those priced at 1.5×, either set the threshold to 0 or use the time and a half calculator, which is built for that shorter question. A clock time such as 45:30 is 45.50 decimal hours. A timesheet still written as 8:30 belongs on the hours to decimal calculator before you add the days.

Seven separate days, added and then split, are the weekly overtime calculator. The pay line there is optional. Here the rate is required, because the page is about the dollars.

What “owed” means on this site

The word in the title is an estimate of the overtime line under the settings you typed. It is not a wage claim, a determination that the hours were worked, or a statement that an employer violated anything. Exemption, a state daily overtime rule, a collective bargaining agreement, and a regular rate that includes a bonus can all change the number. Double time, when it applies, is off until you open the second threshold. The double time calculator prices a block that is entirely at 2×.

Read the how to calculate overtime steps if you want the arithmetic written as a procedure, and the FLSA overtime page for the federal frame with Department of Labor links. Neither page is legal advice. The formulas and the list of things this site refuses to calculate are on assumptions and formulas.