Overtime Pay Calculator
With base hourly rate 22 usd, hours at the regular rate 40 hours, overtime hours 8 hours, double-time hours 0 hours and 2 more fields, overtime pay comes to $1,144.00 — gross pay for the week. It is reached in 10 steps, the last of which is 880 + 264 + 0, and each one is printed on the page with its numbers filled in. The formula is the one published by US Department of Labor, not an approximation fitted to it.
Time-and-a-half, double time and the week’s gross, from the regular rate the FLSA actually uses — which folds in a production bonus and is not your base rate.
Formula and sources checked · How we check
Base hourly rate 22, Hours at the regular rate 40 hours, Overtime hours 8 hours, Overtime multiplier 1.5 x
$1,144.00
Gross pay for the week for the example below. Editing a field recomputes the calculator below; this figure holds the answer the page was loaded with.
It is written into the HTML rather than drawn by a script, so a search engine reading this page without running JavaScript still finds an answer.
- Straight-time pay for all hours worked
22 * (40 + 8 + 0)1,056- Hours worked
40 + 8 + 048 hours- Regular rate under the FLSA
(1056 + 0) / 4822- Pay for the first hours
22 * 40880- Overtime rate
22 * 1.533- Overtime pay
22 * 1.5 * 8264- Double-time pay
22 * 2 * 00- Gross pay for the week
880 + 264 + 01,144- What the overtime premium added
1144 - 22 * 4888- A year at this pace
1144 * 5259,488
Worked example
40 hours at $22 is $880, and 8 hours at $33 adds $264 — $1,144 for the week. Add a $100 production bonus and the regular rate becomes $24.08, so the overtime hours are worth $36.13 each and the week comes to $1,252.33. The bonus is worth $108.33, not $100, because the law makes it raise the overtime rate as well.
How to work it out yourself
- 1.Enter hours as a workweek, not a pay period. Federal overtime is owed on hours over 40 in a single fixed workweek, and two weeks of 30 and 50 hours owe overtime on ten hours even though the fortnight averages 40.
- 2.Add any non-discretionary bonus earned that week. The FLSA makes the regular rate the total pay divided by the hours worked, so a promised bonus raises the overtime rate as well as the total.
- 3.Leave the multiplier at 1.5 unless a contract or a state law says otherwise. Double time is not federal law; it comes from California, from union agreements, and from employer policy.
- 4.Check whether you are exempt before relying on any of it. Salaried does not mean exempt — the duties test decides, and misclassification is the most common wage claim there is.
The formula
- Straight-time pay for all hours worked
22 * (40 + 8 + 0) - Hours worked
40 + 8 + 0 - Regular rate under the FLSA
(1056 + 0) / 48 - Pay for the first hours
22 * 40 - Overtime rate
22 * 1.5 - Overtime pay
22 * 1.5 * 8 - Double-time pay
22 * 2 * 0 - Gross pay for the week
880 + 264 + 0 - What the overtime premium added
1144 - 22 * 48 - A year at this pace
1144 * 52
Source: US Department of Labor — Fact Sheet #23: Overtime Pay Requirements of the FLSA, 29 CFR § 778.109 — the regular rate is an hourly rate derived from all remuneration
Questions people actually ask
- Is overtime calculated daily or weekly?
- Weekly under federal law: hours over 40 in a fixed, recurring seven-day workweek. Four ten-hour days owe no federal overtime at all. California is the well-known exception, paying time-and-a-half over 8 hours in a day and double time over 12, and Alaska, Nevada and Colorado have daily rules of their own.
- Does a bonus change my overtime rate?
- A non-discretionary one does. If the bonus was promised for production, attendance, quality or staying to the end of a season, it goes into the regular rate, and the overtime hours are recalculated against the higher figure. A genuinely discretionary gift — decided after the fact, not announced in advance — does not.
- Can my employer give me time off instead of overtime pay?
- Not in the private sector. Compensatory time in place of overtime is lawful for public agencies under narrow conditions and unlawful for a private employer, whatever the handbook says. The hours must be paid in cash in the pay period they were worked.
- Does unapproved overtime still have to be paid?
- Yes. Work that the employer knew about or should have known about must be paid even if it was not authorised. The employer can discipline someone for working unapproved hours; it cannot refuse to pay for them.
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