China uses 8-hour daily and 40-hour weekly standards. Everhour gives teams structured approvals and time controls.
Enter your daily hours and rate to instantly calculate total hours, regular pay, and any overtime — no spreadsheet needed.
The calculator gives you the number — Everhour takes it from there.
One click and you're timing. Start a timer, add an entry, edit the details. This is exactly how it feels in Everhour.
Set a budget, assign rates, and get alerted before you're over.
Measurement
Track your budget through time or costs
Every report you need — configured your way, always up to date.
Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.
A China work-hours calculation answers a practical payroll question: how many hours count as working time after unpaid meal or rest periods are removed. The result can separate ordinary time, extended working hours, rest-day work, and statutory-holiday work because China's Labor Law applies different pay rates to those categories.
China's standard working-time system sets ordinary work at 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week. National law does not specify one universal meal-break duration for ordinary adult employees, so the timesheet must use the employer's valid break policy, contract terms, or approved schedule arrangement.
Start with each shift span in 24-hour time, then subtract unpaid meal or rest time that does not count as working time. An ILO working-time review of China describes rest and meal breaks as generally starting after 4 hours of work, lasting about 1 to 2 hours depending on the job, with at least 30 minutes not counted as working time.
Short work breaks need separate treatment. The same ILO review notes that some enterprises provide 20-minute work breaks in the morning and afternoon after about 2 hours of work, and those work breaks count as working time. Mixing unpaid meal periods with paid short breaks overstates or understates paid hours.
For example, an employee records 57 gross hours in one week, takes 5 hours of unpaid meal periods, earns ¥38 per hour, and has 52 paid hours. Of those paid hours, 40 are ordinary hours, 8 are extended working hours, and 4 are rest-day hours without compensatory leave.
The ordinary pay is 40 × ¥38 = ¥1,520. Extended working hours use at least 150% of normal wages, so 8 × ¥38 × 1.5 = ¥456. Rest-day work without compensatory leave uses at least 200%, so 4 × ¥38 × 2 = ¥304. Total pay for the classified hours is ¥2,280.
A one-off calculation is enough for a single pay estimate, a corrected shift, or a quick review of whether unpaid breaks were deducted correctly. It stops being enough when managers need repeatable approval, locked records, department-level review, or proof that irregular totals were checked before payroll.
Everhour Team Management supports that durable workflow with approval steps, lock rules, admin time correction, personal tracking limits, weekly capacity, roles, project assignments, team groups, and team-wide time policy defaults. Keep China's working-time rules in the payroll policy, then use the system to enforce review before records move forward.
This content is for general information only, may not be fully up to date, and is provided without any warranty or liability.
High Performer
G2
Summer 2026
Best Ease Of Use
Capterra
Summer 2026
Rated in the top time trackers across G2, Capterra, and TrustRadius — with consistent praise for ease of use, integrations, and support.
China's standard working-time system sets ordinary work at 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week. The Labor Law text still refers to an average cap of 44 hours per week, but the State Council regulation and official workforce guidance state the standard system as 40 hours per week.
Valid unpaid meal or rest periods should be deducted from paid working time. National law does not set one universal meal-break duration for ordinary adult employees, but ILO research describes at least 30 minutes of meal or rest break time as not counted as working time.
Short work breaks do not automatically reduce paid hours. ILO research on China notes that some enterprises provide 20-minute morning and afternoon work breaks after about 2 hours of work, and those work breaks count as working time.
China's Labor Law uses different pay rates. Extended working hours require at least 150% of normal wages, rest-day work requires at least 200% when compensatory leave is not arranged, and statutory-holiday work requires at least 300%. A single weekly total hides those rate differences.
No. If the standard 8-hour-day and 40-hour-week system cannot be implemented because of the nature of work or production, irregular or comprehensive working-hour systems require approval under the relevant framework. The timesheet should label the approved schedule type before payroll uses the result.
Everhour Team Management lets admins set approval workflows, lock approved time, correct entries for team members, apply personal tracking limits, and compare hours against weekly capacity. Those controls help managers review unusual totals before payroll or billing records are finalized.
Everhour supports roles, project assignments, team groups, and team-wide time policy defaults. Managers can organize people by department or project, review submitted time in the right group, and keep access aligned with the work each person should report.
Set approvals, lock periods, capacity checks, and correction rights before payroll review. Everhour Team Management turns repeated hour calculations into governed team records.
14-day free trial · No credit card · Cancel anytime
