Overtime and Double-Time Pay Calculator

When a week runs long, pay stops being a simple multiplication. Hours beyond a limit are usually paid at a higher rate, and some employers or rules add a still higher rate for very long days. Checking a payslip against the hours worked takes a few steps: split the hours into bands, pay each at its own rate, and add up. This page does the splitting for a week and shows how much the extra hours add.

How the bands work

Enter the hourly pay, the hours worked, the number of hours paid at the normal rate, and the overtime multiplier. The page pays the first block at the plain rate and everything after it at rate × multiplier. If you enter an hour at which double time begins, the hours past that point are paid at the double-time multiplier instead, and the overtime band stops there. The double-time point has to be later than the normal limit, or the page explains why it cannot work.

A worked example

The default is a 22.00 hourly rate and a 52-hour week with normal hours up to 40 and time and a half after. The 40 normal hours pay 880.00. The 12 overtime hours are paid at 33.00 an hour, which is 396.00. The week’s pay is 1,276.00. At straight time 52 hours would pay 1,144.00, so overtime adds 132.00 and the average pay per hour worked is 24.54. The second sample is a 66-hour week with double time starting at 60 hours. The normal hours pay 880.00, the 20 hours between 40 and 60 pay 660.00 at 33.00, and the six hours beyond 60 pay 264.00 at 44.00, a total of 1,804.00. That is 352.00 more than straight time and an average of 27.33 an hour.

The multiplier

Time and a half is a multiplier of 1.5 and double time is 2. The boxes accept any value from 1 to 10, so you can model a 1.25 rate, a 1.75 rate for a particular shift or a triple-time holiday. For weekends or public holidays that your agreement pays at a different rate, run a second calculation for those hours and add it.

Several identical weeks

If a pattern repeats, such as a seasonal rush of six identical weeks, enter the number of weeks and the page adds a line for the pay over all of them. For weeks that differ, run each separately. The weeks box takes whole numbers from 1 to 520.

Edge cases

If the hours worked are fewer than the normal limit, there is no overtime, and the pay is just hours times the rate: 30 hours at 22.00 is 660.00. Hours above 168 are rejected, since a week has only that many. A normal limit of zero pays every hour at the overtime multiplier, which suits a job that pays a premium from the first hour. A multiplier below 1 is rejected.

Limits

Overtime rules differ by country, state, industry and contract, and the page does not know which rule you are under. It does not subtract tax or deductions, so the result is gross pay. Salaried staff who are paid overtime need an hourly figure first, which you can get from their pay and the hours the salary is meant to cover. Rounding to the cent is applied when numbers are displayed.

Related tools

• Hours Calculator adds up start and end times into the hours you enter here.
• Timesheet Generator records the week’s hours on a form you can sign.
• Salary Calculator converts the hourly rate into weekly, monthly and yearly figures.
• Payslip Generator turns the pay into a slip for the employee.