Everhour tracks time for payroll and billing workflows, while Safari gives you a quick place to run weekly overtime math.
Calculate regular and overtime earnings based on your hours and rate. Supports standard time-and-a-half and double-time multipliers.
Total hours including overtime
Typically 40h/week
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An overtime calculator on Safari answers one practical question: how much gross pay is due for a covered nonexempt employee after a fixed FLSA workweek ends. Safari does not change the math. It gives you a browser-based place to enter hours and rates while keeping source timesheets, payroll notes, or a PDF open in another tab.
For the United States federal baseline, the FLSA requires covered nonexempt employees to receive overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek. The workweek is a fixed and regularly recurring 168-hour period made of seven consecutive 24-hour periods. Each workweek stands alone, so do not average a 36-hour week with a 48-hour week.
The main inputs are total hours actually worked in the workweek, the employee's regular rate, and any includable compensation that changes that regular rate. The regular rate is total compensation for the workweek, excluding statutory exclusions, divided by total hours actually worked in that workweek. Paid vacation or holiday time not worked is not counted as hours worked under the federal baseline.
A common mistake is treating weekend or holiday work as automatic overtime. The FLSA does not require overtime pay merely because work occurs on Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, or regular days of rest. The federal trigger is hours over 40 in the workweek unless a more protective state law, employer policy, contract, or representative agreement gives the employee a greater benefit.
For a straight hourly example, calculate regular pay for the first 40 hours, then calculate overtime hours at at least 1.5x the regular rate. The formula is: regular hours x regular rate + overtime hours x regular rate x 1.5 = gross pay. This example assumes no bonuses, commissions, shift differentials, or other includable compensation that would change the regular rate.
Example: a covered nonexempt employee works 48 hours in one fixed FLSA workweek at a $29 regular hourly rate. Regular pay is 40 x $29 = $1,160. Overtime hours are 8, and the overtime rate is $43.50. Overtime pay is 8 x $43.50 = $348. Total gross pay for the workweek is $1,508.
A one-off calculator is enough when you have one completed workweek, one regular rate, and a clean set of hours to check before payroll. It is also enough for an employee self-check when the question is limited to the federal baseline and no state rule, policy, contract, or pay add-on changes the calculation.
A managed workflow is better when overtime depends on approved timesheets, late edits, project billing, payroll review, or recurring team rules. Everhour Time Tracking captures task and project hours through timers or manual entries, then feeds timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review so the calculation starts from recorded hours instead of a reconstructed spreadsheet.
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No. Safari does not change the overtime formula, the FLSA workweek definition, or the 1.5x federal baseline for covered nonexempt employees. The same inputs produce the same result in any modern browser. Use Safari's tabs or print flow to keep the timesheet, wage notes, and calculation output organized during review.
Use the employer's fixed and regularly recurring FLSA workweek: 168 hours made of seven consecutive 24-hour periods. The workweek may start on any day and hour, but it must be applied as the workweek for that calculation. Do not combine separate workweeks to reduce or erase overtime.
Enter the regular rate for the workweek, not just the base hourly rate when other includable compensation applies. The regular rate is total compensation for the workweek, excluding statutory exclusions, divided by total hours actually worked in that workweek. If only straight hourly wages apply, the hourly rate is the regular rate.
Under the FLSA federal baseline, payment for time not worked, including vacations and federal or non-federal holidays, is not required and is generally set by agreement, policy, or a representative or union contract. Those paid nonworking hours are not hours actually worked for the federal overtime count.
No. FLSA overtime for covered nonexempt employees is due on the regular payday for the period worked and cannot be waived by employer-employee agreement. Compensatory time off generally does not satisfy private-sector FLSA overtime obligations, except in special circumstances for state and local government employees.
Everhour Time Tracking records task and project hours through live timers or manual entries, then routes those hours into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Admins can use approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules to reduce late changes before overtime is reviewed.
Everhour Overtimes lets admins set daily and weekly overtime limits, then review overtime hours in Team Hours. When overtime tracking is enabled, Everhour can calculate overtime pay and gross pay from employee hourly cost and tracked time in the Payroll dashboard.
Track approved hours before payroll instead of rebuilding totals after the fact. Everhour Time Tracking turns timers and manual entries into reviewable timesheets, reports, and billing-ready records.
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