Hours worked checker
Loading the truck before the punch, the drive to the second site, twenty minutes waiting for the concrete truck: some of a crew's day is paid time even when nobody clocks it. Put in a day's activities and see which ones the federal rules count, what is off the clock, and what it adds up to over a week.
The check appears here
Pick at least one activity and put in its minutes.
Paid time in the day
Activity by activity
| Min | Activity | Pay | Rule |
|---|
Totals
Put the clock where the work starts: in tick-tock-done the crew clocks in on the phone at the yard or the first task, and the timesheet shows every punch.
How it works
Each activity in the list carries the federal rule that decides it, from the Labor Department's rules on hours worked (29 CFR Part 785) and the Portal-to-Portal Act. Paid: setup and cleanup that are part of the job, travel from the shop to the site and between sites, waiting you can't leave (engaged to wait), rest breaks of 5 to 20 minutes, meals eaten on duty, required training and work you know about after hours. Not paid: the drive from home to the first site and back, waiting in line to punch in, time off when the person is told when to come back, and an off-duty meal of 30 minutes or more.
The checker adds the paid minutes, takes away the ones ticked "On the clock", and repeats the day for the days a week you set. Past 40 hours in the week the extra hours are owed at time and a half of the rate, so the wage not on the timesheet is the pay for the full week minus the pay for the clocked part. It doesn't add tips, bonuses or shift pay that change the regular rate.
These are the federal rules as we read them in October 2026, for hourly (non-exempt) workers. States can count more: California pays some travel and on-call time the federal rules leave out, and several states have daily overtime. A union contract can change clothes changing time. Treat it as a check, not legal advice.
Each rule with its examples, the waiting test in detail, a back-pay case over travel between sites and what missing minutes cost a kitchen and a site crew: What counts as hours worked: setup, travel between sites and waiting time.