Weekly overtime calculator — custom multiplier
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Enter hourly rate, weekly hour cap, overtime multiplier, and hours for one or two weeks. Overtime is calculated inside each week—generic maths only, in your browser.
Use the form below to enter rate, weekly hour cap, multiplier, and hours. For U.S. legal overtime rules by state, open overtime laws by state. Worked word-problem examples live on the overtime word problems hub.
Generic maths tool. This calculator applies your chosen hourly rate, weekly hour cap, and overtime multiplier—it does not apply any country's or state's wage laws. For U.S. state overtime rules, see the overtime laws by state hub and the punch-based overtime calculator.
Pay inputs
Totals
- Overtime rate
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- Regular pay
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- Overtime pay
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- Total gross pay
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More worked examples: overtime word problems.
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FAQ
- Is this calculator legal advice?
- No. It applies the numbers you enter (rate, weekly regular-hour cap, multiplier, and hours). It does not apply federal, state, or employer-specific wage laws. Use the overtime laws by state hub and state calculators for rule-based estimates.
- How is overtime calculated for two weeks?
- Overtime hours are found separately for each workweek—hours over your regular cap that week—then multiplied by your rounded overtime rate. The tool does not pool eighty hours before applying overtime.
- How are dollars rounded?
- Money amounts round half-up to cents. The overtime hourly rate is base rate times multiplier, rounded to cents; each week’s overtime pay is OT hours times that rounded rate, rounded again to cents.
- Where are worked homework examples?
- See the overtime word problems page for nine step-by-step examples (time and a half, double time, 1.9×, 37.5- and 44-hour caps, and biweekly totals) computed with this same maths module.
How this calculator works
This weekly overtime calculator is a generic maths tool. You choose the base hourly rate, how many hours count as regular in each workweek, the overtime multiplier (1.5, 1.9, 2, or any positive number), and the hours worked in week one and optionally week two. It does not look up wage laws or employer policies.
Overtime is always calculated inside each week. A biweekly total never treats eighty combined hours as the overtime pool unless you enter a single week—match how most homework problems and many payroll systems split workweeks.
Worked example: two federal workweeks (no averaging)
Illustration only, for a covered nonexempt employee under the standard federal forty-hour workweek rule, assuming no special overtime arrangements, with time-and-one-half overtime on hours over forty in each of two fixed, regularly recurring 168-hour workweeks (seven consecutive 24-hour periods), as DOL defines an FLSA workweek. Actual hours worked: week one forty-six hours, week two thirty-seven hours. Constant applicable $20.00/hr regular rate—no bonuses, shift differentials, or blended rates. State daily-overtime rules are not modeled here; use state calculators when daily thresholds apply.
29 CFR 778.104 explains that the Act does not permit averaging hours over two or more weeks; each workweek stands alone for overtime. Correct per-week maths with this tool at $20.00/hr and 1.5× OT: week one pays 40 × $20.00 = $800.00 regular plus 6 × $30.00 = $180.00 overtime ($980.00); week two pays 37 × $20.00 = $740.00 (no OT). Total: $1,720.00 gross on six overtime hours.
WRONG (pooled biweekly hours): treating eighty-three combined hours as if only three hours exceed an eighty-hour “regular” pool—$1,600.00 regular + $90.00 OT on three hours = $1,690.00, which is $30.00 short of the correct total and undercounts overtime by three hours. That shortcut averages or pools weeks; it is not how this calculator applies your weekly caps.
| Input or result | Example |
|---|---|
| Week 1 (46 h) | $800.00 reg + $180.00 OT = $980.00 |
| Week 2 (37 h) | $740.00 regular |
| Correct biweekly total | $1,720.00 (6 OT hours) |
| WRONG pooled 83 h → 3 OT | $1,690.00 (−$30.00 vs correct) |
The single-week forty-five-hour, $20/hr homework total ($950.00) lives on overtime word problems; this biweekly forty-six / thirty-seven pattern is a different case.
Dollar maths round half-up to cents. The overtime hourly rate is base rate times multiplier, rounded to cents first; each week's overtime pay is OT hours times that rounded rate, then rounded again. If that differs from rounding each OT line without rounding the rate first, the breakdown notes the alternate total.
For U.S. legal overtime on a time card, use the overtime calculator and overtime laws by state. For more word problems with answers, see overtime word problems. To model the federal qualified-overtime premium deduction, try the no tax on overtime calculator.
People also ask
- Does this page apply state overtime law?
- No. It is a generic maths calculator for rate, weekly regular-hour cap, multiplier, and hours. Use overtime laws by state and state calculators for legal rule estimates.
- Why is biweekly overtime calculated per week?
- Homework and payroll problems usually apply the regular-hour cap inside each workweek. This tool never pools two weeks of hours before finding overtime.
Totals shown here are estimates for checking a pay stub or time sheet. They are not official payroll, tax, or legal advice.