time and a half calculator

Time and a half means your overtime hours are paid at 1.5 times your base hourly rate. If your base rate is $20 per hour, time-and-a-half overtime is $30 per hour. Typically, only hours above an overtime threshold (often 40 hours in a week) qualify for the higher rate. This calculator separates regular hours from overtime hours, applies the multiplier to overtime hours only, and then totals your regular pay and overtime pay into one combined total.

In most overtime policies, the 1.5× rate applies only to hours above the overtime threshold, not to every hour you worked. Regular hours are paid at your base rate up to the threshold, and overtime hours are paid at the overtime rate (base rate × multiplier). Applying 1.5× to all hours would significantly overstate total pay. This calculator automatically splits paid hours into regular and overtime portions so the multiplier is applied only where it belongs.

Salary-based mode converts your salary into an estimated hourly base rate using standard hours for the selected period, based on a 40-hour workweek. For example, weekly uses 40 hours and yearly uses 2080 hours. The estimated base rate is salaryAmount ÷ periodHours. That base rate is then used to calculate overtime at the chosen multiplier for hours above your threshold. If your job’s expected hours differ from the standard assumption, enable the regular rate override to enter the base rate you want to use.

If breaks are unpaid, including them in total hours can inflate paid hours and overtime hours. Use the “Include unpaid break time?” toggle and enter total unpaid break minutes for the pay period. The calculator subtracts breakMinutes ÷ 60 from hoursWorked to get paidHours, then applies the threshold and multiplier to paid hours only. If breaks are paid or already excluded by your timekeeping system, leave the break toggle off so your paid hours remain accurate.

Premium-only overtime is the extra amount you earn above your regular base rate for overtime hours. It is calculated as overtimeHours × baseRate × (multiplier − 1). This isolates the “extra” portion of time-and-a-half pay, because overtime pay already includes the regular base rate embedded inside the 1.5× amount. Premium-only overtime is useful when you want to see how much additional pay overtime created beyond what you would have earned at your standard rate.

Small differences usually come from rounding rules and how rates are stored. Payroll systems may keep internal rates with more precision, round at different steps, or handle fractional hours in a specific way. This calculator computes with full precision and rounds money totals to cents for display, while rates can be shown to cents or 4 decimals based on your rounding mode. If your pay stub uses a specific base rate, enable the regular rate override to match it and reduce differences.

Yes. While 40 hours is a common weekly threshold, overtime rules can differ by employer, contract, or pay period. You can edit the overtime threshold to any non-negative value, including 0 if you want all hours treated as overtime for a scenario check. The calculator then sets regularHours to the minimum of paidHours and the threshold, and overtimeHours to any remaining paid time above the threshold. Make sure your threshold matches the same pay period as your hours worked.

Yes, you can edit the multiplier within a safe range. Time-and-a-half is typically 1.5×, but some policies use different multipliers for special cases. Enter a multiplier between 1.0 and 3.0, and the overtime rate becomes baseRate × multiplier. Keep in mind that some real-world rules apply multiple tiers (for example, 1.5× after a threshold and 2× after a second threshold). This page focuses on a single time-and-a-half style multiplier applied to all overtime hours.