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Overtime pay is, at its core, a simple multiplication: your normal hourly rate, times an overtime multiplier, times the number of overtime hours you worked. What makes overtime rules complicated in practice is that the multiplier itself — and even the definition of which hours count as "overtime" in the first place — is set by local labor law or by an individual employment contract, and both differ enormously from one country, and even one employer, to the next. Some systems use a single flat multiplier for all overtime; others pay a higher rate for weekends or public holidays than for an ordinary weekday. Rather than guessing at any one system, this calculator lets you enter your own hourly rate (or derive it from your monthly salary), your overtime hours, and up to two of your own multipliers, so the underlying arithmetic stays accurate and transparent no matter which country's rules apply to you.
"Time and a half," "double time," and similar phrases describe overtime multipliers — the extra rate paid for hours worked beyond an employee's normal schedule. A multiplier of 1.5 means overtime hours are paid at one and a half times the normal hourly rate; a multiplier of 2 means double the normal rate. These numbers feel like universal constants because they're so commonly quoted, but the truth is they're set independently by each country's labor law, and often layered further by individual employment contracts or collective bargaining agreements.
Beyond the multiplier itself, the definition of what actually counts as overtime varies just as much. Some jurisdictions define overtime as any hours worked beyond a standard 8-hour day; others define it as anything beyond a standard 40- or 48-hour week; still others reserve the higher multiplier specifically for hours worked on a weekly rest day or public holiday, while ordinary extra hours on a weekday are paid at a lower or even the standard rate. A worker in one country might have a single overtime rate for all extra hours, while a worker in another has three different rates depending on when those hours fell.
This is exactly why a calculator that hard-codes a single multiplier, or a single definition of overtime, would be wrong for the vast majority of its users. Instead, this calculator treats the multiplier — and, where relevant, a second multiplier for a different category of overtime hours, such as weekend or holiday work — as information only you can supply, sourced from your own employment contract, your company's HR policy, or your country's labor law. Once you provide your hourly rate (directly, or derived from a monthly salary and your standard working hours) and your overtime hours at each applicable multiplier, the calculation itself is simple, transparent multiplication, broken down tier by tier so you can see exactly how each part of your overtime pay was calculated.
Because the underlying rules can change — a new labor law, a renegotiated contract, a shift in company policy — no calculator can promise to stay correct forever if it bakes in a fixed set of numbers. By asking for your multiplier(s) directly, this tool stays accurate through any such change, and works exactly the same way whether you're calculating overtime under one country's rules this year or a different country's rules next year.
An overtime multiplier is the extra rate your overtime hours are paid at compared to your normal hourly rate — for example 1.5× ("time and a half") or 2× ("double time"). The exact multiplier, and which hours qualify as overtime, is set by your country's labor law or your employment contract.
Overtime multipliers, which hours count as overtime, and whether weekends or public holidays get a higher rate all vary enormously by country and by employer, and change over time. Entering your own multiplier(s) keeps this calculator accurate anywhere in the world, indefinitely.
Many workplaces pay a different, usually higher, multiplier for overtime worked on weekends or public holidays compared to a regular weekday. The optional second tier lets you enter those hours at their own multiplier alongside your regular overtime hours.
Yes. Switch to "Monthly salary" mode and enter your monthly salary along with your standard monthly working hours; the calculator divides one by the other to get your base hourly rate before applying your overtime multiplier(s).
Check your employment contract, your company's HR policy, or your country's labor law — these will state the multiplier that applies to your overtime hours, and whether weekends or holidays are paid differently.