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A printable log answers one practical question: how many hours in a fixed workweek should be paid at the regular rate, and how many should be paid at an overtime rate. Under the FLSA federal baseline, covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate.
The log should show the workweek start and end, daily hours worked, total hours worked, regular hours, overtime hours, regular rate, overtime rate, and gross pay. The FLSA workweek is a fixed 168-hour period made of seven consecutive 24-hour periods. Each workweek stands alone, so a paper log should never average a 35-hour week with a 45-hour week to erase overtime.
A clean printable format needs one row per day and a summary area at the bottom. For each day, record the date, start time, end time, unpaid break time, and total hours worked. Then total all hours for the fixed workweek before splitting regular and overtime hours. Keep holiday, vacation, or other paid time-not-worked outside the worked-hours total unless a policy, contract, or state rule says otherwise.
The common mistake is printing a calendar-style sheet that follows a pay period instead of the overtime workweek. A semimonthly pay period can cut through the middle of a fixed FLSA workweek, but the overtime calculation still belongs to the workweek. If the same pay period includes pieces of two workweeks, total each workweek separately before transferring approved amounts into payroll.
For a simple hourly case, assume a covered nonexempt employee works 46 hours in one fixed FLSA workweek at a $31.50 regular hourly rate. The first 40 hours are regular hours, and 6 hours are overtime hours. The overtime rate is $31.50 x 1.5, or $47.25. Regular pay is 40 x $31.50, or $1,260.00. Overtime pay is 6 x $47.25, or $283.50.
The gross pay result is $1,543.50 before taxes, deductions, or any separate additions. If the employee has nondiscretionary bonuses or multiple rates in the same workweek, the regular rate can require more than base-wage math. The regular rate is total compensation for the workweek, excluding statutory exclusions, divided by total hours actually worked in that workweek.
A one-off printable log is enough when you need to check one worker, one fixed workweek, and one regular hourly rate. It also works for a quick backup worksheet when payroll asks where an overtime number came from. The log stops being enough when multiple people, late edits, approvals, double-checks, or repeated payroll handoffs make the paper version hard to audit.
For a durable process, use approved timesheets before payroll or billing review. Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, then let managers approve, reject, partially approve, and lock submitted time. That approval trail matters when overtime totals need review before they become pay, invoices, reports, or locked records.
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A practical log includes employee name, fixed workweek dates, daily dates, start time, end time, unpaid breaks, daily hours worked, total weekly hours worked, regular hours, overtime hours, regular rate, overtime rate, and gross pay. Add reviewer and approval fields when the log supports payroll review.
Use the fixed workweek for the overtime calculation. Under the FLSA federal baseline, the workweek is a fixed 168-hour period made of seven consecutive 24-hour periods. Pay periods can be weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, or monthly, but covered nonexempt overtime is still measured workweek by workweek.
Total all hours actually worked in the fixed workweek first. For the FLSA federal baseline, covered nonexempt hours up to 40 are regular hours, and hours over 40 are overtime hours paid at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate. Write both totals in the summary area.
The biggest mistake is mixing worked time with paid time not worked. The FLSA does not require payment for time not worked, including vacations or holidays, and those benefits are generally set by agreement, policy, or a representative or union contract. Keep those hours separate unless the controlling rule says to include them.
Do not mark weekend or holiday work as federal overtime merely because of the day worked. The FLSA does not require overtime pay just because work occurs on Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, or rest days. The federal trigger is hours worked over 40 in the workweek, unless a more protective state law, policy, contract, or agreement applies.
Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours so managers can review time before payroll or billing. Submitted time can be approved, rejected, partially approved, and locked, giving teams a cleaner approval trail than a printable worksheet passed between employees and managers.
Use a printable log for one-time checks, then move recurring payroll review into Everhour Timesheets for submitted, approved, and locked time records that support cleaner overtime review.
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