Overtime Calculator by State — Every State's Rule in One Estimator

California (after 8 h/day, double time after 12), Alaska (after 8 h/day, with employer-size and flex-plan exceptions), Colorado (after 12 h/day or 12 consecutive hours), Nevada (after 8 h/day, only if your rate is under 1.5× the state minimum wage), and Oregon (after 10 h/day in mills, factories and manufacturing). Every other state relies on the federal weekly rule for most private employers.

Nevada's daily-overtime statute (NRS 608.018) only covers employees who earn less than 1.5 times the state minimum wage. With the minimum wage at $12.00, the cut-off is $18.00/hour: below it you get daily overtime, at or above it only weekly overtime applies. That is why this estimator asks for your rate before choosing the rule.

Generally no — outside mills, factories, manufacturing and a few specific sectors, Oregon overtime is weekly only (after 40 hours). Use the 'Not a mill/factory' setting, which is the default in this estimator.

The five daily-rule summaries were checked against the official state labour pages linked in the table on this page (California DIR, Alaska DOL, Colorado DLE, Nevada Labor Commissioner, Oregon BOLI), last verified November 2026. The federal rule is from the US Department of Labor. Rules change rarely, but your state page is the final authority.

Some do — health care, public safety and a few other sectors have special provisions in several states, and very small employers are sometimes under state thresholds. This estimator covers the general private-sector rule; check your state labor department for sector rules.

Under Alaska's rule as applied here, yes: each 10-hour day holds 2 hours past the 8-hour daily threshold, so the week shows 8 overtime hours even though it totals only 40. The page's Alaska notes flag the exceptions — employers with fewer than 4 employees are exempt, and an approved flexible work-hour plan can allow up to 10 straight-time hours a day.

It only affects Oregon. Set it to Yes and Oregon is scored with the 10-hour daily rule that applies in mills, factories and manufacturing; leave it at No and Oregon is scored on the weekly 40-hour rule that covers most other Oregon employers. For every other state the toggle has no effect.

The federal rule: overtime at 1.5× after 40 hours in the workweek, with no daily component. Forty-five states and DC sit in that group in this page's verified table — if your state is one of them, long single days do not create overtime here unless the week itself passes 40 hours.

It can, and this estimator does not model it: the Colorado calculation uses hours per day (plus the weekly rule). Colorado also owes overtime after 12 consecutive hours, which can matter on split shifts — the page's Colorado note flags this, and your employer's payroll or the Colorado labor department is the deciding source.

Yes. The calculator applies the legal-rule estimate for the state you pick; a union contract, company policy or individual agreement can promise more generous premiums (daily overtime in a federal-rule state, for example), and those promises govern your actual pay alongside the law.