California overtime calculator

Rules checked October 19, 2026

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Weekly total Hours per day

Hourly rate ($) Hours this week

State Bonus or shift pay this week ($) Gross for this week on your stub ($, optional)

Second pay rate this week

Hours at the second rate Second rate ($/h)

Part of the week's hours, at a different job or rate. Overtime is then paid on the weighted average of both rates (29 CFR 778.115).

Tax settings (deduction and take-home)

Tax year Weeks like this a year Filing status Income (MAGI, $)

Income (MAGI): your adjusted gross income for the year, including overtime (Form 1040, line 11b for 2025).

Paid overtime under federal law

Not sure if you are exempt?

You are probably not exempt (so federal overtime applies) if you are paid by the hour, or paid a salary under $684 a week. A salaried employee over that amount is exempt only if the job also passes a duties test: managing a team, office work with real independent judgment, or professional work needing advanced study. Teachers, doctors, lawyers and outside salespeople can be exempt without any salary test (29 CFR 541.303(d), 541.304(d), 541.500(c)). The Labor Department enforces the 2019 level of $684 since a court set aside the 2024 rule. Details: DOL Fact Sheet 17A.

Gross pay this week

$0.00

Straight time
Overtime (1.5x)
Double time (2x)
Bonus
Regular rate (with bonus)

Federal overtime deduction, (estimate)

Take-home on this week's overtime

Overtime pay this week
Social Security (6.2%)
Medicare (1.45%)
Federal income tax
Kept, before state tax

Gross this week $0.00See details ↓

Sources: 29 USC 207(a), 29 CFR 778.110 and 778.115, Cal. Lab. Code 510, Colorado COMPS Rule 4.1.1, the Labor Department state table, IRC §225, IRS FS-2026-13, Rev. Proc. 2024-40 and 2025-32 (brackets), SSA. Federal income tax only; state income tax is not included. Rules checked October 19, 2026. Method, assumptions and test cases

California pays 1.5x after 8 hours in a day and 40 in a week, 2x after 12 hours in a day, and special rates on the seventh straight day of the workweek. Enter your hours for each day above; the calculator applies Labor Code 510 and shows the federal deduction alongside.

The three California overtime rules

Daily: 1.5x for hours over 8 up to 12 in one workday; 2x for every hour over 12.
Weekly: 1.5x for hours over 40 in the workweek, counting only hours not already paid as daily overtime.
Seventh day: when you work all seven days of the workweek, 1.5x for the first 8 hours of day seven and 2x after that.

Worked example

A warehouse associate at $24 an hour works 10, 10, 10, 10 and 12 hours, Monday to Friday. Each day earns 2 hours (4 on Friday) of daily overtime: 12 overtime hours in all. The other 40 hours are straight time, so there is no extra weekly overtime. Pay: 52 × $24 = $1,248, plus a $12 premium on 12 hours = $144, for $1,392.

For the federal deduction only 12 hours count (52 − 40): 12 × $12 = $144 of qualified overtime that week. In this example it happens to equal the daily premium; in a 4-day, 36-hour week of 9-hour days it would be $0, though California still pays 4 hours of daily overtime.

What this calculator does not cover

Flat-sum bonuses: California's Supreme Court requires a flat bonus (such as an attendance bonus) to be divided by non-overtime hours only and paid at 1.5x in overtime (Alvarado v. Dart Container Corp., 2018). This calculator uses the federal method (29 CFR 778.110(b)), which can show less overtime than California requires when you get a flat bonus.

Also not covered: alternative workweek schedules adopted by a two-thirds secret-ballot vote (Labor Code 511), make-up time, and industry wage orders with their own rules (such as some health care and agricultural jobs). For those, ask your employer or the California Labor Commissioner. See overtime laws by state for the rest of the country.

Frequently asked questions

When does daily overtime start in California?

After 8 hours in a workday: hours 9 to 12 are paid at 1.5x your regular rate and every hour after 12 at 2x (Labor Code 510(a)). Hours over 40 in the workweek that were not already daily overtime are also paid at 1.5x.

How does the seventh-day rule work?

If you work all seven days of a workweek, the first 8 hours on the seventh day are paid at 1.5x and every hour after 8 that day at 2x. It does not apply if you had a day off that week.

Do daily overtime hours count toward the 40-hour week?

No. California does not pay overtime twice for the same hour. Hours already paid as daily overtime are left out when counting to 40. The state labor department gives the example of four 12-hour days: 16 daily overtime hours and no weekly overtime.

Does California daily overtime count for the federal no tax on overtime deduction?

Only the part federal law requires: half your regular rate for hours over 40 in the week. Daily overtime in a shorter week and the extra half of double time do not count (IRS FS-2026-13, Q16). A hospital 8/80 plan is different: its daily overtime does count (Q17).

Are there exceptions?

Yes. Exempt employees, alternative workweek schedules approved by a two-thirds secret-ballot vote (Labor Code 511), flat-sum bonuses (Alvarado v. Dart Container, 2018), and some industries covered by their own wage orders follow different rules. This calculator applies the standard Labor Code 510 rules.