Time and a Half for $20 an Hour

The $30 rate is the whole overtime hour

Time and a half for 20 an hour is not $20 plus a separate $30, and it is not a tip of fifty cents. Multiply the straight-time rate by 1.5. Twenty times 1.5 is thirty. Every overtime hour in the box is priced at $30 when the checkbox stays on. Eight of those hours are $240. Straight time for the same eight hours would have been $160. The premium is $80, which is eight times the extra $10. That $80 is part of the $240, not a bonus you add after the $240.

Five hours is the shorter check: 5 × $30 = $150. That is the same overtime line as a 45-hour week at $20, because only the last five hours of that week are overtime. The first forty hours are still $20, which is $800, and the gross for the week is $950. Use the overtime calculator when the number you have is the whole workweek. Use this page when the hours are already the overtime hours. The blank-rate version is the time and a half calculator.

When $20 is not the number to multiply

The field is filled with 20 so the rate is obvious, and you can replace it. A shift differential, a nondiscretionary bonus, or two different jobs in the same workweek can change the regular rate that gets multiplied. This calculator does not build that weighted average. It also does not know whether the Fair Labor Standards Act, a state daily rule, or an exemption applies to the job. It estimates pay for hours you chose to price at 1.5 times.

If the timesheet still says 8:30, convert it before you multiply. Eight hours and thirty minutes is 8.50 on the hours to decimal calculator, and 8.50 overtime hours at $30 are $255. Writing 8.30 by mistake would understate the line. Neighboring rates live on their own pages: time and a half for 18 an hour, time and a half for 25 an hour, and time and a half for 15 an hour. The weekly explanation of the 40-hour line is overtime after 40 hours.