Nevada Overtime Pay Calculator

Nevada is one of the few states that requires daily overtime, but with a twist most workers don't know about. Under Nev. Rev. Stat. §608.018, employees who earn less than 1.5 times the applicable minimum wage are entitled to overtime pay after 8 hours worked in a 24-hour period, in addition to the standard 40-hour weekly threshold. Employees earning at or above 1.5x minimum wage — $18.00 an hour once the $12.00 minimum takes effect July 1, 2026 — are only covered by the 40-hour weekly rule, not the daily one.

This creates a genuinely two-tiered system: a warehouse worker earning $16 an hour who works a 10-hour shift is owed 2 hours of daily overtime, while a coworker earning $19 an hour doing the identical 10-hour shift is not, because they clear the 1.5x threshold. Employers in hospitality, casinos, and retail — huge sectors in Nevada — need to track pay rate against this threshold shift-by-shift, and many get it wrong by applying only the weekly rule to everyone.

The daily overtime rule also doesn't apply to employees who have a mutual written agreement for alternative 10-hour, 4-day workweeks, provided that arrangement doesn't require overtime for the first 10 hours of any workday within that schedule.

The Nevada Labor Commissioner's Office investigates wage and overtime complaints and can order back pay, and in some cases penalties, without the worker needing to hire an attorney. Claims must generally be filed within two years of the violation, extending to three years for willful violations. The Labor Commissioner's process is often faster than a private lawsuit for straightforward unpaid-overtime cases involving modest amounts.

A major trap in Nevada is casino and hospitality tip pooling combined with the daily overtime threshold — employers sometimes calculate the 1.5x minimum wage test using base wage only, ignoring that tips don't count toward the 'earns 1.5x minimum wage' test used to determine whether daily overtime applies, since that test looks at the employee's normal hourly wage rate, not gross compensation with tips folded in.

Nevada also allows a slightly reduced minimum wage historically tied to whether an employer offers qualifying health benefits, but that two-tier minimum wage system was phased out by 2024 ballot measure, leaving one universal minimum wage rate — this trips up employers and payroll systems still running old dual-rate logic.

Federal law only requires overtime after 40 hours in a workweek, with no daily threshold at all. Nevada's daily overtime rule is considerably more generous for lower and mid-wage workers, meaning a Las Vegas worker earning $15 an hour who works a single 12-hour shift is owed 4 hours of overtime pay under state law even if their total weekly hours stay under 40 — something federal law alone would never require.

Higher earners above the 1.5x minimum wage threshold effectively get federal-equivalent treatment in Nevada: only the 40-hour weekly rule applies to them. Understanding which bucket you're in is the single most important step for a Nevada worker checking whether they're owed overtime.