Overtime Pay Blog

A true-up is a retroactive overtime adjustment. When a bonus or commission arrives after the workweek, your employer must recalculate your regular rate and pay the difference. Here's the math.

FTE measures workload against a full-time schedule: hours ÷ 40 weekly, or ÷ 2,080 yearly. How to calculate your FTE, convert an FTE salary to real pay, and why FTE doesn't decide overtime eligibility.

The 2026 Social Security wage base is $184,500. After you cross it, the 6.2% tax stops — including on overtime. Medicare has no cap. Rates, math and examples.

Exactly what overtime pays at $15, $20, $25, $27, $32, $40, $45 and $50 an hour — time-and-a-half rates, per-hour amounts and weekly totals for 2026.

How to calculate your overtime rate per hour: multiply the regular rate by 1.5. Worked examples for hourly, salaried nonexempt, bonus and two-rate workers in 2026.

Yes — shift differentials usually go into your regular rate, which raises your overtime rate. See the 2026 FLSA method with a worked night-shift example.

What overtime premium pay is, how the half-time premium works, and whether holiday or Sunday premiums count toward overtime under 2026 federal rules.

Overtime is 1.5× your regular rate after 40 hours in a workweek. See exactly how much overtime pays at $15, $20, $25 and $30 an hour, with worked examples.

Run your own numbers the way a hospital payroll system should: differentials in the regular rate, 8/80 weeks, and auto-deducted lunches you actually worked.