Overtime calculator
Enter your hourly wage and the hours you worked to see your overtime pay and your total, before taxes. Switch to two weeks, a weekly salary, or California daily overtime.
Enter your hourly wage and the hours you worked to see your pay with overtime.
Pay breakdown, before taxes
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Each line is rounded to the cent. Overtime hours are paid at the regular rate times the multiplier.
How it’s calculated
- Formula
total pay = rate × regular hours + rate × multiplier × overtime hours- With your numbers
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An estimate of gross pay, before taxes
This is gross pay, before federal and state income tax, Social Security and Medicare, and other deductions. Your employer’s payroll may round, define the workweek, or count hours differently, and your contract or state law may give you more than the federal rule. This is not legal, tax, or financial advice.The rules this uses
Federal (FLSA). Covered employees get overtime pay for hours over 40 in a workweek, at not less than time and one-half their regular rate. A workweek is a fixed, recurring period of 168 hours, seven consecutive 24-hour days, and hours are not averaged over two or more weeks. That is why the two-week mode counts each week on its own.
California. Hours over 8 in a workday, up to 12, are paid at 1.5 times the regular rate. Hours over 12 are paid at double. On the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek, the first 8 hours are paid at 1.5 times and the rest at double. Hours over 40 in the week are overtime too.
Who is exempt. Many salaried executive, administrative, and professional employees are exempt from overtime, but a salary alone does not make you exempt: you also have to meet a duties test. The minimum salary in the Department of Labor’s fact sheet is $684 a week ($35,568 a year). A salaried employee who is not exempt is owed overtime; use the weekly salary option.
Other states. Some states and employers add their own overtime rules. This calculator only applies the federal rule and California’s daily rule, so check your state labor department for others.
Verified on October 8, 2026. Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division: Fact Sheet #23; California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement; U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division: Fact Sheet #17A (revised September 2019).
Federal deduction for overtime pay
For tax years 2025 through 2028, the IRS lets you deduct qualified overtime pay, but only the part above your regular rate, such as the “half” in time and a half. The most you can deduct in a year is $12,500 ($25,000 on a joint return), and the deduction phases out for modified adjusted gross income over $150,000 ($300,000 on a joint return). The calculator shows that premium part of your federal overtime pay as information only: it does not work out your tax.
Verified on October 8, 2026. Source: Internal Revenue Service: tax deductions for working Americans and seniors.
How to use it
- Choose one week, two weeks, or California daily, and whether you are paid by the hour or a weekly salary.
- Enter your hourly wage (or your weekly salary and the hours it covers).
- Enter the hours you worked in the week, or in each day for California.
- Pick time and a half (1.5×) or double time (2×) for the hours over 40.
- Read your regular pay, overtime pay, and total, with the formula, and copy the result or a link.
Frequently asked questions
How do I calculate overtime pay?
Multiply your regular hourly rate by 1.5 and by the hours you worked over 40 in the workweek, then add your regular pay for the first 40 hours. At $20 an hour for 45 hours, that is 20 × 40 + 20 × 1.5 × 5 = $950.
Is overtime calculated per week or per pay period?
Per workweek. Federal law counts hours over 40 in each fixed, recurring 168-hour workweek and does not average hours over two weeks. In a biweekly paycheck, each week is figured on its own.
What is the difference between time and a half and double time?
Time and a half pays 1.5 times your regular rate, which is what federal law requires for hours over 40. Double time pays 2 times your rate. California requires it after 12 hours in a day; elsewhere it is something an employer or contract chooses to pay.
How does California overtime work?
California counts hours each day. Hours over 8 in a workday are paid at 1.5 times, and hours over 12 at double time. On the seventh consecutive day of a workweek, the first 8 hours earn 1.5 times and the rest double. Hours over 40 in the week are overtime too.
Do salaried employees get overtime?
Only if they are not exempt. A salary alone does not make you exempt: you also have to meet a duties test, and the Department of Labor’s fact sheet sets a minimum of $684 a week for executive, administrative, and professional employees. For a salaried employee who is not exempt, the regular rate is the weekly salary divided by the hours it covers.
Is the overtime premium taxable?
Yes, overtime pay is taxed as wages. For tax years 2025 through 2028, the IRS lets you deduct the premium part, the amount above your regular rate, up to $12,500 a year ($25,000 on a joint return), with a phase-out at higher incomes. This calculator does not work out your tax.
The formulas
- Overtime rate: regular hourly rate × 1.5 (time and a half) or × 2 (double time).
- Federal pay for a week: rate × regular hours (up to 40) + rate × 1.5 × hours over 40.
- Salaried, not exempt: regular rate = weekly salary ÷ hours the salary covers; hours over 40 earn 1.5 times that rate.
- California: per day, hours over 8 up to 12 at 1.5 times and hours over 12 at 2 times; the seventh consecutive day of the workweek at 1.5 times for 8 hours and 2 times after that.
A worked example
Say you earn $24 an hour and work 46 hours in a week. The first 40 hours pay 24 × 40 = $960. Your overtime rate is 24 × 1.5 = $36 an hour, so the 6 overtime hours pay $216. The total is $1,176 before taxes, an average of about $25.57 an hour. At double time, the same week pays $1,248.
Two weeks are not one
If you are paid every two weeks, the 40-hour line still applies to each workweek separately. Working 50 hours one week and 30 the next does not average out to 40: the 10 extra hours in the first week are overtime. Use the two-week mode to see each week and the total.
Who gets overtime
Most hourly employees are covered. Some salaried executive, administrative, and professional employees are exempt, but only if they meet both a salary level and a duties test. Being paid a salary does not by itself make you exempt, and job titles do not decide it either. If you think you were not paid overtime you were owed, contact the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division or your state labor department.
Gross pay, not take-home pay
All figures are before taxes. Overtime is taxed like the rest of your pay, so a larger paycheck can mean more withholding, but it does not push your whole income into a higher bracket. To see what a weekly pay comes to over a year, try the hourly to salary calculator, and to check your base rate against the legal floor, the minimum wage by state table. For the days that count as federal holidays, see the federal holidays calendar. To see what overtime adds to your paycheck after tax, use the paycheck calculator, and the income tax calculator for the year.
Updated on October 8, 2026