Enter your double-time hours and rate to see the 2× pay — and check below whether your situation is one where double time is actually owed.
Double time means 2× your regular rate: a whole extra rate on top of straight time, twice the premium that time-and-a-half carries. Unlike overtime, no federal law requires double time. It is owed only when a state rule, a union contract, or your employer's own policy promises it:
If none of those applies, long hours are paid at time and a half (after the weekly or daily trigger), not double time — the Time and a Half Calculator covers that case.
Your overtime rate and overtime pay in one step — plus the part people forget: how much of it is the extra premium over straight time.
Free — try itCalifornia's daily overtime done properly: 1.5× after 8 hours, double time after 12, the 7th-consecutive-day rule, and no double-counting.
Free — try itOne estimator for all 50 states: the federal rule where it applies, and the real daily-overtime logic for California, Alaska, Colorado, Nevada and Oregon.
Free — try itThe federal rule in one box: weekly hours and your rate in, regular hours, overtime hours at 1.5× and total gross pay out.
Free — try itMultiply your regular rate by 2, then by the double-time hours. At $20/hour, double time is $40/hour, so 4 double-time hours pay $160.
No. The FLSA requires only time and a half after 40 hours in a week. Double time exists only where a state law (mainly California), a union contract, or an employer's policy creates it.
For hours worked beyond 12 in a single workday, and for hours beyond 8 on the seventh consecutive day of a workweek.
Only if your employer's policy or your union contract says so. There is no general federal or state rule requiring premium pay just because a day is a holiday.
Double time is the simplest premium in payroll: the rate doubles. This calculator takes the double-time hours you enter, prices them at exactly twice your regular rate, and also shows the premium over straight time — the extra amount those hours earn compared with being paid at the plain rate — so you can see what the 2× promise is actually worth.
Your regular rate is $22.50/hour and you worked 6 double-time hours. The calculator shows a double-time rate of $45.00, double-time pay of $270.00, and a premium over straight time of $135.00 — the 6 hours would have paid $135.00 at the plain rate, so the 2× rule puts another $135.00 on top.
Time and a half pays 1.5× the rate — the premium is half a rate per hour. Double time pays 2× — the premium is a whole extra rate per hour, exactly twice as large. On a $20 rate, one premium hour pays $30 at time and a half and $40 at double time.
The double-time pay figure already is the full pay for those hours (hours × 2 × rate) — nothing needs adding. The separate “premium over straight time” line simply isolates the extra part, so you can compare it against what the hours would have paid at the plain rate.
Yes. The hours field accepts decimals — 2.5 is converted to 150 minutes internally and priced as two and a half hours at the doubled rate. Whole and part hours can be mixed freely; there is no need to round to full hours first.
No. Double-time pay is ordinary wage income, taxed the same way as the rest of your pay; the 2× label describes how the amount is calculated, not a tax category. (Your total tax still depends on your overall earnings and your own tax situation.)
Enter just the double-time hours here. Price the rest of the shift with the companion tools — the regular and 1.5× hours belong in the Overtime Calculator or your time card — then add the results together for the full shift.
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