Overtime Pay Calculator

How It Works

1. Select a Jurisdiction Row

   Choose federal, California, Alaska, Colorado, or Nevada. The selected row screens common thresholds only and does not decide current state-law compliance.

2. Enter the Base Input

   Use the hourly or regular-rate input you intend to review. Shift differentials, bonuses, multiple rates, per diem, salary, and exclusions still need payroll review.

3. Input Displayed Daily Hours

   Enter the seven displayed days or use a preset. Cross-week consecutive-day patterns, split workweeks, and shift start/end times remain source gaps.

4. Review Premium Rows

   The app separates straight-time, 1.5x, 2x, additional weekly, and optional flat fringe rows without counting the same hour twice.

5. Check Source Warnings

   Review FLSA, state, DBRA, CBA, certified-payroll, fatigue, and legal gaps before the result moves into payroll or bid records.

6. Export as a Review Packet

   Export or share the assumptions, source pointers, warnings, and arithmetic for payroll, HR, estimator, union, agency, or legal review.

Built For

• Payroll teams preparing a review packet before processing an unusual overtime week
• California employers comparing daily, weekly, seventh-day, and alternative-workweek source questions before legal review
• Operations managers screening long-week wage rows before checking fatigue and safety controls
• Prevailing wage contractors separating base and fringe assumptions before certified-payroll review
• HR teams documenting which source gaps remain before a wage-hour audit
• Union or CBA reviewers checking whether a local screen missed contract-specific premium language
• Estimators moving wage arithmetic into a bid file without treating it as payroll approval

Features & Capabilities

Source-Pointer Jurisdiction Rows

Federal, California, Alaska, Colorado, and Nevada rows include visible source warnings and residual gaps.

No-Duplicate Premium Calculator

Daily premium-paid hours are not counted twice; additional weekly overtime is added only when the weekly excess is larger.

Flat Fringe Review Row

Optional prevailing-wage fringe is shown separately as a flat all-hours row that still requires wage-determination review.

Malformed Input Guard

Partial live text and malformed shared state are blocked or normalized instead of silently changing payroll arithmetic.

Day-by-Day Breakdown

Shows the displayed straight-time, 1.5x, 2x, and pay rows for each day and for the total workweek.

Review Packet Export

PDF, CSV, and share links include assumptions, warnings, source pointers, and source gaps for follow-up.

Assumptions

• Displayed workweek is the seven entered days and does not prove the employer workweek definition.
• Daily premium-paid hours are not counted a second time for weekly overtime.
• Prevailing-wage fringe is a flat local row, not certified-payroll or wage-determination approval.
• California seventh-day logic only applies when all seven displayed days have worked hours.
• Colorado 12-consecutive-hour timing, Nevada 4x10 agreements, Alaska flexible plans, and CBA terms remain source gaps.

Limitations

• Does not decide FLSA exemption status, compensable hours, regular-rate inclusions, multiple rates, bonuses, per diem, salary, or payroll records.
• Does not cover all states, local ordinances, industry rules, wage orders, exemptions, CBA terms, or employer policies.
• Does not prove California AWS validity, Colorado consecutive-hour overtime, Nevada 4x10 treatment, or Alaska flexible work-hour plan status.
• Does not calculate meal/rest premiums, split shifts, reporting time, holiday/weekend premiums, travel, on-call, training, standby, PTO, or comp time.
• Does not approve long workweeks, fatigue controls, safety-sensitive tasks, driving exposure, or staffing decisions.

References

• DOL WHD Fact Sheet #23 - FLSA overtime pay source pointer.
• DOL WHD Fact Sheet #56A - regular-rate source pointer.
• California DIR/DLSE overtime FAQ and Labor Code Sections 510 and 511.
• Alaska Wage and Hour minimum wage and overtime page.
• Colorado COMPS Order 2026 poster and current CDLE rule materials.
• Nevada NRS 608.018 and Labor Commissioner daily-overtime bulletin.
• DOL DBRA compliance principles and Fact Sheet #66E for fringe-benefit source context.

Frequently Asked Questions