Filling in a weekly time card with overtime

A time card adds up each day’s hours, subtracts lunch, and then splits the week into regular and overtime hours. The Time Card Calculator handles all seven days at once.

Steps

1. For each day, write the start time, end time, and unpaid break.
2. Daily hours are end minus start, minus the break.
3. Add the days together for the weekly total.
4. Hours above the overtime threshold are overtime. Under the US federal rule most hourly workers earn overtime after 40 hours in a week, at 1.5 times their rate.

Some states add daily overtime rules, and some employers use different thresholds, so the calculator lets you change both numbers.

Worked example

Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM with 30 minute lunches, is 8.5 hours a day, or 42.5 hours. Add a Saturday morning from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM and the week is 46.5 hours: 40 regular and 6.5 overtime. At $18 an hour, that is 40 × $18 plus 6.5 × $27, or $895.50 gross.

Need a single shift instead? Use the Hours Calculator.