Overtime Pay Calculator
Calculate Weekly and Daily Overtime for CA, AK, NV, CO with Anti-Pyramiding, Prevailing Wage Fringe, and 6 Schedule Presets
Free overtime wage calculator for payroll, HR, estimating, and operations teams that need a transparent first pass before qualified review. Enter hours by day, choose a jurisdiction row, and see straight-time, 1.5x overtime, 2x double-time where applicable, and optional flat prevailing-wage fringe rows. The app keeps FLSA regular-rate, compensable-time, state-law, CBA, payroll-system, certified-payroll, and legal gaps visible instead of presenting the output as final payroll.
The calculator uses source pointers for federal FLSA overtime, California daily and seventh-day rows, Alaska daily overtime with the four-employee context, Colorado daily and consecutive-hour context, Nevada daily overtime threshold context, and DBRA-style fringe treatment. It is still a local arithmetic calculator. Verify current agency guidance, wage orders, exemptions, workweek setup, time records, selected wage determination, and qualified payroll or legal review before operational use.
Check overtime cost assumptions including FICA, workers comp, and turnover
Overtime Cost Projection Tool →Review prevailing-wage fringe and classification assumptions
Davis-Bacon Prevailing Wage Calculator →Check shift differentials before regular-rate review
Shift Differential Calculator →Review source gaps for contractor overtime
Overtime Source-Gap Guide →How It Works
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Review Premium Rows
The app separates straight-time, 1.5x, 2x, additional weekly, and optional flat fringe rows without counting the same hour twice.
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Check Source Warnings
Review FLSA, state, DBRA, CBA, certified-payroll, fatigue, and legal gaps before the result moves into payroll or bid records.
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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.