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Your overtime rate is probably higher than your hourly rate.

Time and a half is 1.5 × your regular rate of pay. If you earned a bonus, commission or shift premium this week, federal law folds it into that rate first. Almost no calculator does this.

Your week

Decimal (46.5) or hours and minutes (46:30).

Attendance, production, safety bonuses and shift differentials count. Gifts and reimbursements do not.

California has daily overtimeLabor Code 510. First 8 hours on the 7th consecutive day of a workweek at 1.5x; over 8 hours on that 7th day at 2x. Exceptions apply for alternative workweek schedules. California overtime rules →

What you are owed

Regular rate of payBase rate plus bonus, per hour
$25.26
Straight time40.00 hrs at the regular rate
$1,010.43
Overtime6.00 hrs at 1.5×
$227.35
Double timeNone this week
$0.00
Total gross$1,237.78
Your overtime rate is higher than your hourly rate$9.78 more Your regular rate of pay is $25.26, so your overtime rate is $37.89, not $33.00. Paying overtime at $33.00 would leave you $9.78 short this week.
Daily overtime applies hereCalifornia pays overtime after 8 hours in a day. Switch to “Day by day” above — your weekly total may hide overtime you are owed.

What changes your overtime rate

Overtime is 1.5× your regular rate of pay — which is not always the same thing as your hourly rate.

Non-discretionary bonuses

Attendance, production, and safety bonuses are spread across the hours you worked, lifting the rate your overtime is calculated from.

Two rates in one week

Work part of the week at a different rate and overtime is based on the weighted average of both, not on either one alone.

Shift differentials

A night or weekend premium counts toward the regular rate the same way a bonus does.

What does not count

Discretionary gifts, expense reimbursements, and paid time off you did not work are excluded.

What time and a half actually pays

The multiplier is always 1.5. What it multiplies is the part employers get wrong.

At $20 an hour with no extras, time and a half is $30 an hour. Add a $100 attendance bonus to a 46-hour week and the regular rate becomes $22.17, so the overtime rate is $33.26 — about $19 more across those six hours than the plain multiplication gives.

Double time is twice the regular rate. No federal law requires it; California is the main state that does, after 12 hours in a day and after 8 hours on a seventh consecutive workday. See the time and a half calculator for a rate-by-rate table.

Overtime rules by state

Federal law sets the floor at 40 hours. Some states add a daily rule on top.

AlabamaWeekly 40-hour ruleAlaskaDaily OT after 8 hrsArizonaWeekly 40-hour ruleArkansasWeekly 40-hour ruleCaliforniaDaily OT after 8 hrs, DT after 12ColoradoDaily OT after 12 hrsConnecticut40 hrs/week + 7th-day rule (some industries)DelawareWeekly 40-hour ruleDistrict of ColumbiaWeekly 40-hour ruleFloridaWeekly 40-hour ruleGeorgiaWeekly 40-hour ruleHawaiiWeekly 40-hour ruleIdahoWeekly 40-hour ruleIllinoisWeekly 40-hour ruleIndianaWeekly 40-hour ruleIowaWeekly 40-hour ruleKansasWeekly 40-hour ruleKentucky40 hrs/week + 7th-day ruleLouisianaWeekly 40-hour ruleMaineWeekly 40-hour ruleMarylandWeekly 40-hour ruleMassachusettsWeekly 40-hour ruleMichiganWeekly 40-hour ruleMinnesotaState 48 hrs, federal 40 appliesMississippiWeekly 40-hour ruleMissouriWeekly 40-hour ruleMontanaWeekly 40-hour ruleNebraskaWeekly 40-hour ruleNevadaDaily OT after 8 hrsNew HampshireWeekly 40-hour ruleNew JerseyWeekly 40-hour ruleNew MexicoWeekly 40-hour ruleNew YorkWeekly 40-hour ruleNorth CarolinaWeekly 40-hour ruleNorth DakotaWeekly 40-hour ruleOhioWeekly 40-hour ruleOklahomaWeekly 40-hour ruleOregonDaily OT after 10 hrsPennsylvaniaWeekly 40-hour ruleRhode IslandWeekly 40-hour ruleSouth CarolinaWeekly 40-hour ruleSouth DakotaWeekly 40-hour ruleTennesseeWeekly 40-hour ruleTexasWeekly 40-hour ruleUtahWeekly 40-hour ruleVermontWeekly 40-hour ruleVirginiaWeekly 40-hour ruleWashingtonWeekly 40-hour ruleWest VirginiaWeekly 40-hour ruleWisconsinWeekly 40-hour ruleWyomingWeekly 40-hour rule