Calculate your overtime pay and total weekly earnings. Enter your hourly rate, regular and overtime hours, and the overtime multiplier (1.5× time-and-a-half or 2× double time) to see exactly what you'll earn.
Time-and-a-half & double time
Overtime pay is the higher rate you earn for hours beyond your standard schedule. In the US, the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires non-exempt employees to be paid at least 1.5× their regular rate ("time and a half") for hours over 40 in a workweek. Some employers or states pay 2× ("double time") for holidays or very long shifts. The formula is simple: overtime pay = hourly rate × multiplier × overtime hours, added to your regular pay.
For example, at $20/hour with 40 regular hours and 10 overtime hours at 1.5×, you earn $800 regular + (20 × 1.5 × 10) = $300 overtime = $1,100 for the week. That's an effective overtime rate of $30/hour. This calculator breaks down regular pay, overtime pay, your overtime hourly rate, and annualizes the weekly total so you can see the yearly impact of consistent overtime.
US federal law requires time-and-a-half for non-exempt workers beyond 40 hours per week.
OT pay = rate × multiplier × OT hours. Add it to regular pay (rate × regular hours) for the weekly total.
Some employers and a few states pay 2× for holidays or hours beyond a daily threshold — select 2× to model it.
Under the US Fair Labor Standards Act, non-exempt employees must receive at least one and a half times their regular rate for hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek. Two details are widely misapplied. The threshold is weekly, not daily — working twelve hours one day and four the next triggers no federal overtime if the week totals 40 — although some states, notably California, add daily rules. And the "regular rate" is not simply the base wage: non-discretionary bonuses, shift differentials and commissions must be folded into it before the multiplier is applied, which raises the overtime rate above 1.5× the nominal hourly figure.
Regular rate = total straight-time earnings ÷ hours workedOvertime pay = (hours over 40) × regular rate × 1.5Total = (40 × regular rate) + overtime paywhere:
Assumptions: Applies to non-exempt employees. Exempt salaried staff meeting the duties and salary tests are not entitled to overtime. Several states impose daily thresholds and higher multipliers.
A worker on $22/hour works 48 hours and earns a $120 non-discretionary bonus that week.
Result$1,274 total — a $24.50 regular rate, not $22
Folding the bonus into the regular rate is the step employers most often miss, and it is a common source of back-pay claims. Discretionary gifts and true bonuses genuinely at the employer's whim are excluded, but performance and attendance bonuses are not.