Overtime Calculator

How this result is built

Add straight-time pay and overtime pay for a single week.

A common US overtime premium is one and a half times the hourly rate after 40 hours in a workweek. This page multiplies straight-time hours by the base rate and overtime hours by the base rate times the multiplier you enter. Daily overtime, seventh-day rules, and exempt salaries are outside that simple week.

What the opening example is for

The result is gross pay for the week. It is not a take-home figure. Tax on a heavy overtime week can be withheld at a higher rate even when the annual bracket is unchanged.

The walkthrough below uses the numbers already sitting in Overtime Calculator. Press Calculate and the headline should match this page. Then put your own figures in. The math does not run until you press the button, and Clear hides the result.

What each field is doing

The “Hourly rate” line on Overtime Calculator starts at $24.00. Leave that figure only when it matches the statement, the quote, or the plan you are testing. Press Calculate after the edit so the chart and the schedule move with it.

Overtime Calculator treats “Straight-time hours” as its own entry, and the form opens with 40. A round example is useful for learning the page. It is a poor substitute for the number on your own paperwork, so replace it and run the form again.

The remaining fields

Before you replace it, “Overtime hours” reads 6 on Overtime Calculator. The other fields stay put while you change this one. That is the clean way to see what this line is doing inside the result.

Look at “Overtime multiplier” first if you are checking Overtime Calculator: the filled value is 1.50. If the label is a rate, type the annual figure the contract uses. If it is money, type the amount that will actually move, not a rounded hope.

The opening result, line by line

Press Calculate on the opening form and Weekly gross pay is $1,176.00. That is the number the rest of this section is talking about.

Straight-time pay is $960.00 when you run the opening figures on Overtime Calculator. That line is part of the same calculation as the headline. It is not a second balance you can spend on top of the result. Change one input and press Calculate if you want to see whether this line moves.

On this opening pass, overtime pay is $216.00. That line is part of the same calculation as the headline. It is not a second balance you can spend on top of the result. Change one input and press Calculate if you want to see whether this line moves.

How those lines were produced

Many US hourly roles use 1.5× after 40 hours in a week. Daily overtime and exemptions depend on the law that covers the job.

A second pass changes only “Hourly rate”, from $24.00 to $26.40. Weekly gross pay moves from $1,176.00 to $1,293.60. Nothing else on the form was edited, so the gap between those two results is the effect of that one field on Overtime Calculator. If the gap is tiny, this page is not very sensitive to that entry. If the gap is large, get that entry from a document before you plan around the result.

What this page will not claim

Overtime Calculator is a federal estimate from the brackets and inputs written on the page. It is not a tax return. Credits, state tax, and items you do not type are simply absent. Confirm the figure with a filing source before you send money.

Overtime Calculator stops at its own formula. When the next question is different, open Salary Calculator (Hourly wage times the hours you actually work.); Hourly to Salary Calculator (The hourly rate hiding inside a salary.); Take-Home Paycheck Calculator (Gross check to estimated take-home.). Do not add those results to this one as if they were the same kind of dollar.

Check the result before you use it

Start on Overtime Calculator by reading the labels, not the headline. The opening labels are Hourly rate ($24.00), Straight-time hours (40), Overtime hours (6), Overtime multiplier (1.50). If a label is not the fact you have, the result cannot turn into that fact later. The illustration on the form lands on $1,176.00. When you press Calculate and see that same figure, the button and this explanation are using one formula.

Change one field at a time. Write down the headline, edit a single line, and press Calculate again. A large jump means that line carries the result. A line that does not move is a line the formula ignores, which is a reason to confirm you opened the right page. Overtime Calculator is built for one job: Straight time plus a premium on the extra hours. The description on the page says the same thing in a sentence: Add straight-time pay and overtime pay for a single week.

When the paperwork disagrees

Then hold the headline next to a source outside the site. That source might be a loan estimate, an account statement, a pay stub, or the public limit named in the methodology. A few cents of difference on a long schedule is ordinary rounding. A different rate, a fee you never typed, or a tax the form does not ask for is not rounding. Correct the input. Do not average the page with the paperwork.

When the outside source still disagrees, Overtime Calculator has reached the edge of what it will claim. It will not phone a lender, pull a county record, or apply a credit you left blank. Send the calculator name, every input, and the result you expected through the contact page if you think the formula itself is wrong. Until that is settled, read $1,176.00 as the output of the fields above and nothing else.

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