Calculate overtime pay with regular/OT/double-time rates, weekly hours, and FLSA compliance checks with pay period summaries.
Federal law requires nonexempt employees to earn 1.5 times their regular hourly rate for every hour worked beyond 40 in a single workweek, and this tool converts an hourly rate and weekly hours into that split automatically. Enter the base rate, hours worked, and an optional double-time threshold, and it divides the week into regular, overtime, and double-time hours, then totals each at its own multiplier. The detail people miss most: overtime applies per workweek, not per pay period, so a biweekly check with one light week and one heavy week still owes overtime for the heavy week alone, even if the two-week total stays under 80.
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
Hourly rate: $20.00; Hours worked this week: 46
Expected output
Regular pay: $800.00 (40 hrs x $20.00); Overtime pay: $180.00 (6 hrs x $30.00 OT rate); Total gross pay: $980.00
The first 40 hours are paid at the regular rate; the 6 hours beyond 40 are paid at 1.5x the regular rate ($20.00 x 1.5 = $30.00), so $800.00 + $180.00 = $980.00.
Hours entered for a single workweek are divided into buckets: regular hours from 0 up to 40, overtime hours from 40 up to an optional double-time threshold, and double-time hours beyond that. Each bucket is multiplied by the base rate times its own multiplier (1.0, 1.5, or 2.0) and summed into a gross pay figure.
When more than one week is entered to model a biweekly or semimonthly pay period, the 40-hour overtime test is applied separately to each individual workweek before the results are added together, rather than testing the combined total. This matches how FLSA overtime is legally determined.
No. It applies the federal FLSA weekly 40-hour threshold only. California and a handful of other states also require overtime after 8 hours in a single day, which this tool won't calculate unless you enter each day separately as its own week.
Only if you add it yourself before entering the hourly rate. FLSA requires nondiscretionary bonuses to be blended into the regular rate used for the overtime multiplier, and the calculator does not perform that blending automatically.
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