California Double Time Calculator
California is the state where a single long shift can pay three different rates. Enter your seven days and see exactly which hours are straight time, which are time and a half past 8, and which cross into double time past 12.
Your Week in California
Your Week's Pay
Enter your rate and daily hours to split the week into straight time, time and a half, and double time.
Gross figures before withholding. Alternative workweek schedules shift the daily trigger.
Three rates in one shift
A 14-hour day in California is not one rate applied to 14 hours. The first 8 are straight time, hours 9 through 12 are time and a half, and hours 13 and 14 are double time. At $25 an hour that day pays $200 + $150 + $100 — $450 for 14 hours, against $350 if someone wrongly paid it flat.
Why hours are counted once, at the best rate
California layers daily and weekly rules but never pays both for the same hour. Weekly overtime applies only to straight-time hours past 40, so hours already paid at a premium are excluded from that count. Getting the sequence wrong is the classic payroll error in long-shift industries — see the full California overtime calculator for the state's other rules.
Check the rate, not just the hours
Double time is 2x the regular rate, and the regular rate includes shift differentials and promised bonuses. If a bonus was left out, both the 1.5x and 2x hours are underpaid — test that with the overtime bonus calculator, or compare rules nationally in the general double time calculator.
Frequently asked questions
California's 8-hour, 12-hour and seventh-day overtime rules.
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