Overtime calculator: what's my overtime pay?
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Your overtime pay
This calculator needs JavaScript. The rules table further down shows how overtime is worked out.
Federal law doesn't pay overtime by the day. California does: four 10-hour days or three 12-hour days show no overtime here but earn some there. Turn on California daily overtime above.
Alaska also pays time and a half after 8 hours in a day, with exceptions such as employers who regularly employ fewer than four people. We haven't built Alaska's rules in, and other states may add their own.
Not covered here: alternative workweek schedules, qualifying collective bargaining agreements, farmworkers' and other special California rules, and flat bonuses earned over several workweeks.
This assumes you're nonexempt. The usual federal white-collar exemption needs qualifying duties and at least $684 a week on a salary basis. Some exemptions work differently, and California sets a higher salary bar. We can't decide your status here.
If your pay stub and this estimate don't match and payroll can't explain it, an employment lawyer can look at your exemption status and your state's rules.
This is an estimate from the figures you entered, not legal advice.
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How the overtime calculator works
Payday's here, the stub says one number and your own math says another, and you'd like to know which one to believe. We work it out in the same order every time, so you can follow along and check each step against the stub.
We take one workweek at a time. A workweek is your employer's fixed run of seven days, 168 hours, and it doesn't have to start on a Sunday. Every hour past 40 in that week is an overtime hour. On a biweekly paycheck we never add the two weeks together first. Thirty hours one week and fifty the next still means 10 overtime hours in the second week, because federal rules don't allow averaging.
Next comes the regular rate. For most people that's just their hourly rate. But if you were paid a promised bonus, a commission or a shift differential that week, it belongs in the rate too, so we add it to your straight-time pay and divide by every hour you worked. The overtime rate is one and a half times that.
Then the money. Hours up to 40 are paid at the regular rate and overtime hours at the overtime rate. We work in exact fractions and round once, to the cent, for each week. That's why a $17.35 rate shows an overtime rate of $26.025 instead of a rounded one.
In California, overtime also runs by the day. Turn on the switch and enter each day's hours. Over 8 hours in a workday is time and a half, and over 12 is double time. Work all seven days of the workweek and the seventh day's first 8 hours are time and a half, the rest double time. Any regular hours past 40 in the week move to time and a half too. No hour gets paid twice.
What we leave out: exemption tests (we assume you're nonexempt), taxes and take-home pay, tipped wages, piece rates and commission-only pay, a fixed salary for hours that swing week to week, the 14-day period some hospitals use, police and firefighter work periods, comp time in government jobs, a bonus paid later for earlier weeks, California's alternative workweek schedules and qualifying collective bargaining agreements, flat California bonuses earned over several workweeks, and every other state's rules. Paid as an independent contractor on a 1099? Federal overtime doesn't apply if you really are one, and whether you are is a legal question.
Every rule here comes from the federal overtime regulations and from California's Labor Code, read the way the state's Labor Commissioner explains it.
Who this is for
- You're paid by the hour, your hours change from week to week, and you want to check a pay stub or see what a long week will bring before you agree to it.
- You're paid a salary and you've been told you're nonexempt.
- You work in California and your long shifts never seem to show up as overtime.
Worker questions about overtime pay
How is overtime pay calculated?
Take your regular rate, multiply it by 1.5, and that's what each hour past 40 in the workweek pays. Hours up to 40 are paid at the regular rate. At $22 an hour, 46 hours comes to 40 times $22 plus 6 times $33, or $1,078.00. If a promised bonus or commission was paid that week, it goes into the regular rate first, and the overtime rate rises with it.
Is overtime calculated weekly or biweekly?
Weekly. Federal rules look at one workweek at a time and don't let an employer average two weeks together, even when you're paid every two weeks. Work 30 hours one week and 50 the next and the second week still has 10 overtime hours. The federal regulation uses that exact example. Enter each week's hours on its own line and you'll see it.
Does PTO or holiday pay count toward overtime?
Not under federal rules. Overtime is based on the hours you actually worked, so paid holidays, vacation and sick days don't count toward the 40. Some employers count them anyway, by their own policy, and that's allowed. California's Labor Commissioner gives the same answer for its rules: a paid sick day isn't a worked day when overtime is counted.
Does a bonus count toward overtime?
A promised one does. The federal rules use this example: $12 an hour, 46 hours, and a $46 production bonus raise the regular rate to $13, so the week comes to $637.00 rather than $588.00 plus the $46. Bonuses your employer decides on alone, with no promise beforehand, and holiday gifts stay out. California counts a flat bonus, such as an attendance bonus, over your non-overtime hours, which raises the overtime on it.
How much is time and a half for $22 an hour?
$33.00 an hour: $22 times 1.5. A rate with an odd cent gives a half cent, so $17.35 becomes $26.025, and 5 overtime hours at that rate come to $130.13 once rounded. Payroll systems that round the rate to $26.03 first get $130.15. That small gap is why a stub can be a few cents off without anyone making a mistake.
Do I get overtime if I work more than 8 hours in a day?
Under federal rules, no. Only hours past 40 in the workweek count. A few states pay by the day. California pays time and a half after 8 hours in a workday and double time after 12, and Alaska pays time and a half after 8, with exceptions. Turn on the California switch above and enter your days to see what California's rules give you.
How does California's seventh-day overtime work?
It applies when you work all seven days of one workweek. On that seventh day, the first 8 hours are paid at time and a half and anything past 8 at double time. The Labor Commissioner's manual is clear that seven days in a row straddling two workweeks don't trigger it. With the switch on, we apply it whenever all seven day boxes of a week hold hours.
Do salaried employees get overtime?
Many do. A salary doesn't make you exempt on its own. The usual federal white-collar exemption needs qualifying duties and at least $684 a week on a salary basis. Some exemptions work differently, and California sets a higher salary bar. For the fixed-hours federal salary calculation, divide weekly salary by the hours it covers. Monthly salary becomes weekly salary by multiplying by 12 and dividing by 52.
How do you calculate overtime with two different pay rates?
Your regular rate becomes an average of the two, weighted by the hours at each. To get it here, enter the lower rate as your hourly rate, then put whatever extra the higher-rate hours earned under other pay. Thirty hours at $20 and 15 at $30 go in as $20, 45 hours and $150 of other pay. That gives a regular rate of about $23.33 and $1,108.33 for the week.
Does a 4/10 schedule get overtime in California?
Under California's standard rule, yes. Each 10-hour day has 2 hours past 8, so four of them give 8 overtime hours a week even though the week is only 40 hours. At $20 an hour that's $80.00 more than federal rules alone give. If your employer adopted an alternative workweek schedule, daily overtime starts later, and we don't cover that.
Overtime calculator rules at a glance: federal and California
The three rule sets side by side, as we've built them. Alaska's column is there for reference. We don't compute it.
| Rule | Federal (FLSA) | California (switch on) | Alaska (not computed) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly overtime | over 40 hours, 1.5x | over 40 regular hours, 1.5x | over 40 hours, 1.5x; daily overtime hours left out of the count |
| Daily overtime | none | over 8 hours in a workday, 1.5x | over 8 hours in a day, 1.5x |
| Double time | none | over 12 hours in a workday; over 8 on a seventh day | none |
| Seventh day in one workweek | no rule | first 8 hours 1.5x, the rest 2x | no rule |
| Averaging two weeks | not allowed | not allowed | not computed |
| Where it's written | 29 CFR Part 778 | Labor Code section 510(a) | Alaska Statutes 23.10.060 |
The California switch uses standard workweek rules; alternative workweeks need a different calculation. Alaska's statute lists 19 overtime exclusions, including employers who regularly employ fewer than four people.
Sources and last checked
- Federal overtime rules: 29 CFR Part 778, on eCFR. Last checked October 7, 2026.
- Federal minimum wage, 29 U.S.C. 206 (govinfo), and the salary level, 29 CFR 541.600 (eCFR). Last checked October 7, 2026. Data version ot-federal-constants-2026-10-07.
- California: Labor Code section 510, on California Legislative Information, read October 4, 2026; the Labor Commissioner's overtime questions and enforcement manual, read October 7, 2026. Data version ot-california-rules-2026-10-07.
- Alaska: Alaska Statutes 23.10.060, read October 4, 2026.
When we went back to the state's statute site on October 8, 2026, it wouldn't load for us. So for section 510 we read an archived copy of the official page, dated August 31, 2026. Its rules match the ones we use, and so does the Labor Commissioner's current guidance.
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