Time and a half means your rate plus half again. Enter your rate and overtime hours to see the rate, the pay, and the premium separately.
"Time and a half" is exactly what it sounds like: your regular hourly rate, plus half of it again — a 1.5× multiplier. At $20/hour, your overtime rate is $30/hour. Of each overtime hour's $30, $20 is the straight-time value of the hour and $10 is the premium — the extra the law requires for hours past 40 in a week (or past the daily trigger in daily-overtime states).
That split matters beyond curiosity: the premium half is the part the temporary federal tax deduction for overtime (tax years 2025–2028) is built around — see the Overtime Calculator with Taxes. And if you are checking a full week rather than just the premium hours, the Overtime Calculator splits the whole week for you.
Double time is 2× your rate — rarer than overtime and worth real money. See the rate, the pay, and when the law or a contract actually owes it.
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 itA dated, time-limited estimator for the temporary federal overtime deduction (tax years 2025–2028): the qualified premium, the caps, the phase-out, the saving.
Free — try itFrom hours to every paycheque shape: weekly gross split into regular, overtime and double time, then converted to biweekly, monthly and annual equivalents.
Free — try itMultiply your hourly rate by 1.5. At $18/hour, time and a half is $27/hour. Then multiply that rate by your overtime hours for the overtime pay.
$30 an hour. Ten overtime hours at that rate pay $300, of which $100 is the premium over straight time.
No — only on the overtime hours themselves. Your first 40 hours in the week are paid at your regular rate; only hours beyond the trigger earn the 1.5× rate.
Double time is 2× your rate, used in narrower situations: California hours past 12 in a day, some 7th-day hours, and certain union contracts and holidays. See the Double Time Calculator.
Time and a half is your regular hourly rate plus half as much again: rate × 1.5. This calculator multiplies the overtime hours you enter by that rate. If you choose to add a 40-hour regular week, those 40 hours are priced at the straight rate first and the overtime pay is added on top, so you can see the whole week’s gross.
At $19.25/hour with 7.5 overtime hours, the time-and-a-half rate is $19.25 × 1.5 = $28.875, displayed as $28.88. Overtime pay: 7.5 × $28.875 = $216.56, of which $72.19 is the extra premium over what those hours would have paid at straight time. Add the 40-hour regular week (40 × $19.25 = $770.00) and the week’s gross is $986.56 — the exact figures the calculator shows for these inputs.
Enter the paid overtime hours you actually worked beyond 40 in the week. Unpaid break time is not paid time, so if a long shift included an unpaid meal break, leave that break out of the hours you type in.
The display rounds money to the nearest cent, but the arithmetic underneath uses the exact figure — 1.5 × $19.25 = $28.875. That is why 7.5 hours comes to $216.56 rather than the $216.60 you would get by multiplying the rounded $28.88.
Under the federal rule it is per week: hours over 40 in a workweek. This page simply prices whatever overtime hours you give it — deciding which of your hours qualify as overtime depends on the law that applies to you and your employer’s policy, and some states add daily rules on top of the weekly one.
Then the rate your overtime is legally priced on may be higher than your base rate, because the regular rate can include differentials and nondiscretionary bonuses. This page prices a single rate; if a differential is part of your week, the Shift Differential Calculator on this site works out the blended rate first.
Half your hourly rate on top of the straight-time pay for that hour — the “half” in time and a half. At $19.25/hour, each overtime hour earns the usual $19.25 plus $9.625 of premium; the calculator’s “extra premium” line totals that premium across all your overtime hours ($72.19 in the example).
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