Overtime week check
Overtime is cheapest to deal with before the schedule goes out. Put in next week's planned hours for each person, pick the rules your crew works under, and see who goes into time and a half or double time, what it costs, and who is one late close away from 40.
The check appears here
Put in at least one person's hours.
Person by person
| Who | Hours | 1.5x | 2x | Premium |
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The week
Plan the week where the crew sees it: in tick-tock-done the Plan tab has one row per person across the week, and the time clock and timesheets show the hours as they build up.
How it works
Each person's hours are added up for the fixed workweek you pick; the federal rule doesn't allow averaging two weeks (29 CFR 778.104). Federal: time and a half after 40 hours in the week. California: time and a half after 8 hours in a day and after 40 in the week, double time after 12 in a day, and on the seventh day in a row in the workweek the first 8 hours at time and a half and the rest double. Alaska: after 8 a day and 40 a week, for employers with four or more employees. Nevada: after 40 a week, and after 8 in a day for anyone whose regular rate is under 18 dollars an hour, 1.5 times the 12-dollar minimum wage. Colorado: after 40 a week or 12 in a workday.
Daily overtime comes first; the hours left count toward 40, so an hour is never paid as overtime twice, and the result is the greater of the daily and the weekly sum. With two rates, the regular rate is the weighted average: all straight-time pay divided by all hours (29 CFR 778.115). Each overtime hour adds half that rate on top of its straight pay, each double-time hour adds the whole rate. It flags shifts that trigger daily overtime, seven days in a row in California, and anyone at 36 hours or more.
What it leaves out: bonuses and shift premiums that belong in the regular rate, overtime paid at the rate of the work done by advance agreement (29 CFR 778.419), Colorado's 12 consecutive hours across midnight, California alternative workweeks, Nevada's written four-10s agreement, union contracts and exempt staff. These are the rules as we read them in October 2026; treat it as a check, not legal or payroll advice.
The rules with the same weeks worked out by hand, the two-rate example step by step and a seven-step check of the schedule: Overtime on an hourly crew: when time and a half starts, and spotting it in the schedule before payroll.