7am to 6pm is 11 hours
7am to 6pm is 11 hours — 11.00 in decimal. With an unpaid 30-minute lunch that is 10 hours 30 minutes of paid time (10.50), and with an hour for lunch, 10 hours (10.00).
| Shift | Hours | Decimal |
|---|---|---|
| 7am to 6pm | 11h | 11.00 |
| With a 30-minute unpaid lunch | 10h 30m | 10.50 |
| With a 1-hour unpaid lunch | 10h | 10.00 |
| 4 days with a 30-minute lunch | 42h | 42.00 |
7am to 6pm over a week
Over four days with a 30-minute lunch, 7am to 6pm adds up to 42 hours. Under the federal 40-hour rule that is 2 overtime hours. In California, where overtime also starts after 8 hours in a day, the same week has 10 overtime hours — $96.00 more at $24 an hour.
Time card for 7am to 6pm
Your time card
Sep 13 – Sep 19What a 40-hour-only calculator would have told you
$96.00 lessA calculator that only knows the federal 40-hour rule would show $1,032.00 for this period. Under California rules the total is $1,128.00.
7am to 6pm: common questions
How many hours is 7am to 6pm with lunch?
With an unpaid 30-minute lunch, 7am to 6pm is 10 hours 30 minutes of paid work, or 10.50 hours in decimal. With a full hour for lunch it is 10 hours (10.00). Short rest breaks of 5 to 20 minutes are paid time under federal rules, so they are not subtracted.
How many hours a week is 7am to 6pm?
Four days of 7am to 6pm with a 30-minute lunch is 42 hours a week. Anything over 40 in the workweek is overtime under federal law, so 2 of those hours are paid at time and a half. States with daily overtime count long days on their own — pick your state in the calculator above.
How do I write 7am to 6pm on a time card in decimal?
Write the clock-in and clock-out as they are, and the total as decimal hours: 11.00 for the full shift, or 10.50 after a 30-minute unpaid lunch. To convert, divide the minutes by 60 — 30 minutes is 0.50, 15 is 0.25 and 45 is 0.75 — and add them to the whole hours.
Other shifts
Converting a whole column of times? Use the hours to decimal converter, or the full time card calculator.