Overtime Hours Estimator
Before you work out what overtime pays, work out how much of it you actually have. Enter your daily schedule, subtract unpaid breaks, and see how many hours cross the overtime line this week, this month and this year.
Your Weekly Schedule
Your Overtime Hours
Fill in a normal week and press the button to see paid hours, overtime hours and the yearly total.
Hours only. To turn these into money, use the overtime pay calculators linked below.
Paid hours, not scheduled hours
A 45-hour schedule is not automatically five overtime hours. Half-hour unpaid meal breaks across five days remove 2.5 hours from the paid total, which leaves 42.5 paid hours and 2.5 overtime hours. That single adjustment is the most common reason an estimate and a pay stub disagree.
When the daily rule beats the weekly rule
Most of the country counts overtime only past 40 hours in a workweek. A handful of states also count it past 8 hours in a day, so four ten-hour shifts — 40 hours flat — still produce eight daily overtime hours. Set the daily threshold to 8 to see it, then confirm your own state's rule on the state overtime laws pages.
Turn hours into dollars
With the hour count settled, price it: the overtime wage estimator gives a slow-to-busy earnings band, the overtime paycheck calculator shows the net deposit, and the timesheet calculator rebuilds the week from real punches.
Frequently asked questions
Paid hours, unpaid breaks, daily overtime and yearly totals.
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