Calculate pay for hours worked beyond your standard week
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Enter a valid hourly rate (1-500)
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Enter valid hours (0-168)
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Enter valid OT hours (0-168)
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Enter a valid multiplier (1.0-3.0)
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Overtime Pay Calculator — Complete Guide
What this calculator does
This tool turns your hourly rate and hours worked into a clear breakdown of regular pay, overtime pay and total pay for the period. Enter your base hourly rate, the number of standard (non-overtime) hours, the number of overtime hours, and the overtime multiplier that applies. The calculator returns the extra earnings generated by overtime, your total pay, your effective hourly rate across all hours, and the share of your paycheck that came from overtime.
It is useful both for checking a payslip and for deciding whether an extra shift is worth your time, since the effective hourly rate shows what you truly earned per hour once premium rates are blended in.
The multiplier is the premium applied to overtime hours only. A 1.5× rate means time-and-a-half: the overtime hour is paid at 150% of the base rate, so the worker effectively earns half an extra hour for every overtime hour. A 2× rate is "double time", and 3× is "triple time". Standard hours are always paid at the plain rate; the multiplier never applies to them.
A worked example
An employee earns $25 per hour, works 40 standard hours, and adds 6 overtime hours at 1.5×.
Regular pay: $25 × 40 = $1,000
Overtime pay: $25 × 6 × 1.5 = $225
Total pay: $1,000 + $225 = $1,225
Effective hourly rate: $1,225 ÷ 46 ≈ $26.63
Overtime share of pay: $225 ÷ $1,225 ≈ 18%
Those 6 overtime hours add $225 — the equivalent of nine base-rate hours — for six extra hours of work. The higher the multiplier, the more each extra hour is worth, as the table shows for the same six hours:
Multiplier
Overtime pay
Total pay
Effective hourly
1.25×
$187.50
$1,187.50
$25.82
1.5×
$225.00
$1,225.00
$26.63
2×
$300.00
$1,300.00
$28.26
3×
$450.00
$1,450.00
$31.52
Rules, thresholds and edge cases
Overtime thresholds vary: some jurisdictions apply them above 40 hours per week, others above 8 hours per day, and public holidays may carry a higher multiplier.
The result is gross pay — income tax, social insurance and other deductions are not included.
Some contracts blend or average the rate over a period, which can lower the hourly base used for overtime.
Unpaid meal breaks reduce reportable hours and therefore overtime eligibility; count only hours actually worked.
When several rates apply in one week (for example, a shift premium), compute each rate separately before adding them up.