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Overtime and multipliers

Hours worked this week one workweek, not averaged

Overtime is worked out on a single workweek. Federal law (FLSA) counts hours over 40 in a workweek at 1.5×, and averaging hours across two or more weeks is not permitted. Some states — California, Alaska, Nevada and Colorado among them — also count hours over 8 in a day. This calculator works on weekly hours only; it cannot apply a daily rule, because it never sees your daily breakdown.

Results

Overtime hours 0:00 hours : minutes over the threshold
Regular hours 0:00 at the regular rate
Total hours 0:00 this workweek
How this is worked out —

About this group

Everything here prices hours above the standard rate: it converts multipliers from 1.5x to 2.5x into pay, stacks shift differentials into the rate they apply to, and follows the result through to take-home pay after a week with overtime hours. What it does not do is decide whether your employer owes those tiers at all, because that turns on your state and your contract, and the boundary pages in this group flag the question rather than settle it.

Shared constants

Hours worked over 40 in a workweek must be paid at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate. Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, Overtime Pay (dol.gov/agencies/whd/overtime), read 2026-10-23.

Averaging of hours over two or more weeks is not permitted. Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, Overtime Pay (dol.gov/agencies/whd/overtime), read 2026-10-23.

In California, work past 8 hours in a day or past 40 in a week pays at least 1.5x the regular rate; work past 12 in a day pays at least 2x; the first 8 hours on a seventh consecutive day pay 1.5x, and hours beyond that pay 2x. Source: California Labor Code §510(a), Stats. 1999 Ch. 134, effective 2000-01-01 (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov).

Where to start

Open the Overtime Calculator first: splitting one workweek into regular and overtime hours at a threshold you set is the step every other page in this group assumes you have already done. Move to the multiplier pages after that, and only when your week crosses a 12-hour or seventh-day line.