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Overtime Pay Calculator

Daily overtime after 8 hours, double time after 12, and the seventh consecutive day rule.

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Estimate Your Unpaid Overtime

Enter a typical week. Everything you type stays in your browser, and your employer has no way to see that you used this.

How are you paid?

We derive an hourly rate from salary divided by 52 weeks divided by 40 hours.

Hours you worked each day

Enter a typical week. Decimals are fine, so 8.5 means eight and a half hours.

The seventh consecutive day carries its own rule: time and a half for the first eight hours, double time after that. We tick this for you when all seven days have hours.

Optional. Production bonuses, attendance bonuses, and commissions raise the rate your overtime is paid on.

What were you paid for hours past 8 in a day or 40 in a week?
52 weeks
Do coworkers at your location work this same schedule?

This does not change the math. It tells us whether your situation looks like a group claim.

When Does Overtime Start in California?

Daily after 8 hours and weekly after 40, both at time and a half. Double time after 12 hours in a day. Plus the seventh consecutive day rules, where the first 8 hours are time and a half and everything past 8 is double time.

Federal law only requires weekly overtime. That gap is the whole point of this page.

What Is My Regular Rate of Pay?

Your regular rate exceeds your hourly rate whenever you get nondiscretionary bonuses, commissions, or shift differentials. A $100 weekly bonus raises the rate every overtime hour is paid on. Employers who pay overtime on the base rate alone underpay every one of those hours.

I am salaried. Can I still get overtime?

Exemption requires the duties test and a salary of at least twice the state minimum wage for full-time work, which is $70,304 in 2026. Below that floor, the title on your badge is irrelevant. Read about misclassification.

What Can I Recover?

Unpaid overtime for 3 years, or 4 under the unfair competition law, plus interest and attorney fees and costs under Labor Code 1194. Wage-statement and waiting-time penalties stack when they apply. Waiting time penalty calculator.

Frequently Asked Questions

My manager never approved the overtime. Does that matter?

Work that is suffered or permitted is compensable. Knowledge controls, not approval.

What About Off-The-Clock Prep, Closing, or Security Checks?

Compensable, and a common basis for class claims.

Does My Employer See That I Used This?

No. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere or stored.

Employment Law Resources

Refreshed January 1 for the exempt floor and minimum wage, and July 1 for local wage floors.

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