Overtime Wage Estimator
Overtime hours rarely repeat, so a single number is a bad forecast. Enter a slow week, a typical week and a busy week and get three honest estimates — with shift differentials and promised bonuses folded into the regular rate, the way the law requires.
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Enter your rate and three overtime scenarios to see weekly, monthly and yearly estimates side by side.
Gross estimates before withholding. Daily-overtime and double-time states can raise these figures further.
Estimate a range, not a number
Variable hours defeat single-point forecasts. A slow-typical-busy band tells you two useful things at once: the floor you can safely commit to bills, and the ceiling you should treat as savings. It also makes an unexpectedly small check readable — you can see straight away whether it is fewer hours or a payroll error.
The regular rate is the part employers get wrong
Overtime is 1.5 times the regular rate, and the regular rate is more than your base wage. Shift differentials, attendance and production bonuses, safety incentives and most commissions belong inside it. This estimator folds a promised weekly bonus across all hours worked and then applies the premium, which is why your overtime rate here can exceed 1.5 times your posted wage. Read how the workweek is defined for the other half of the rule.
From estimate to verified paycheck
Once the range looks right, close the loop. Take the typical week into the overtime paycheck calculator to see the net deposit, into the overtime income calculator for the yearly figure a lender will ask for, and into the time and a half calculator for a fast single-shift check.
Frequently asked questions
Variable overtime hours, the regular rate, differentials and bonuses.
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