Greece separates overwork from statutory overtime; Everhour Timesheets keeps approved hours ready for payroll review.
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Greek payroll does not treat every hour above 40 the same way. Full-time contractual working time is 40 hours per week, distributed as 8 hours per day over a five-day week or 6 hours 40 minutes per day over a six-day week. The calculation answers how much pay is due when weekly hours move beyond that baseline.
For a five-day schedule, hours 41-45 are overwork, paid at the hourly rate plus 20%. Statutory overtime starts above 45 hours per week and is normally paid at the hourly rate plus 40% when it stays within the legal limits. A six-day schedule uses a different weekly threshold: overwork covers hours 41-48, and overtime starts above 48 hours.
The first decision is whether the employee works a five-day or six-day schedule. Using the wrong threshold changes the result because Greece's overwork band is wider in a six-day week. A five-day employee with 46 hours has 5 overwork hours and 1 overtime hour. A six-day employee with 46 hours has 6 overwork hours and no weekly overtime.
Daily limits matter too. Overtime also starts above 9 hours per day in a five-day schedule or above 8 hours per day in a six-day schedule. Current law sets the normal private-sector legal overtime limit at up to 4 hours per day and 150 hours per year. Work beyond those limits requires approval from the competent Ministry body and uses a different premium.
Example: a five-day employee in Greece works 51 hours in one week at €12 per hour, with the overtime within the normal legal limit. Regular pay is 40 hours × €12 = €480. Overwork is 5 hours × €12 × 1.2 = €72. Legal overtime is 6 hours × €12 × 1.4 = €100.80.
Total gross pay for that week is €652.80 before taxes, deductions, or other payroll adjustments. Do not multiply all 11 extra hours by the same premium. Greece separates the 41-45 overwork band from hours above 45 in a five-day schedule, so the first 5 extra hours use +20% and the remaining overtime hours use +40%.
A one-off calculation is enough when you have a single week, one hourly rate, a known five-day or six-day schedule, and no Sunday, public-holiday, approval, or averaging issue. It is also enough for checking whether a payroll line roughly matches the Greek overwork and overtime bands.
A managed workflow is needed when hours require approval, corrections, locked payroll periods, or audit-ready history. Everhour Timesheets lets employees submit weekly project or working hours, while admins approve, reject, partially approve, and lock time entries before payroll or billing review. That workflow protects the source hours before the calculation is used.
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Greek full-time contractual working time is 40 hours per week. It is normally distributed as 8 hours per day over a five-day week or 6 hours 40 minutes per day over a six-day week. Hours above that baseline are not all statutory overtime, because Greece has a separate overwork category before the overtime threshold.
Overwork, or yperergasia, covers hours 41-45 in a five-day week and hours 41-48 in a six-day week. Each overwork hour is paid at the employee's hourly rate plus 20%. Statutory overtime starts above those thresholds and, when legal and within the statutory limit, is paid at the hourly rate plus 40%.
Current Greek law sets the normal private-sector legal overtime limit at up to 4 hours per day and 150 hours per year. Overtime beyond those limits is legal only with approval from the competent Ministry body and is paid at the hourly rate plus 60%. Overtime performed without required formalities or approval is illegal overtime, with compensation at the hourly rate plus 120%.
No. Work on Sundays and official public holidays has a separate rule. Qualifying work is paid with an additional 75% of 1/25 of the statutory monthly salary or of the daily wage. That premium is separate from the weekly overwork and overtime calculation, so the payroll review must identify the day worked, not only the weekly total.
Yes, but only under Greece's working-time arrangement rules. Periods above 40 hours can be spread across later reduced-hours periods, with the increased and reduced reference period capped at 12 months and subject to collective or qualifying individual agreement rules. Do not average weeks informally unless the arrangement meets the required framework.
Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, so managers can review the source totals before payroll. Employees can submit time for approval, and admins can approve, reject, partially approve, or lock entries when corrections are needed.
Everhour Overtimes can calculate overtime hours and overtime pay when admins set daily and weekly overtime limits. Team Hours can show an overtime column, and the Payroll dashboard calculates overtime pay and gross pay from hourly cost and tracked time.
Use approved timesheets before payroll deadlines. Everhour lets teams submit, review, approve, and lock weekly time so payroll uses controlled records instead of loose hour totals.
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