Everhour turns logged government hours into customizable reports for payroll review, budgets, and project visibility.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
| Day | Time In | Break Start | Break End | Break | Time Out | Total |
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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.
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Government time tracking supports payroll, overtime review, compensatory time, grant cost allocation, and audit records. The useful result is a complete time record by person, date, activity, program, and cost objective. For U.S. federal awards, salary and wage charges must be based on records that accurately reflect the work performed.
A public works employee splitting a week between a federally funded road project and local maintenance needs more than a weekly total. The record should show daily hours and the allocation across the federal award, non-federal activity, and any indirect or administrative work. That detail supports payroll review and gives finance a defensible basis for charging labor costs.
For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, but it does not require a specific timekeeping form or system.
Useful government entries usually include employee, department, date, start and stop times or daily total, program, grant, project, activity, cost objective, pay code, and approval status. U.S. rate and billing fields normally use U.S. dollars. Payroll records must be preserved for at least three years, and basic time and earnings records, such as daily start and stop time cards or sheets, must be preserved for at least two years.
Federal-award personnel-cost records must reasonably reflect total compensated activity on an integrated basis. That means records need to cover federally assisted work and other compensated work together, not only the grant-funded slice. A person who works on two federal awards, one local program, and indirect administration needs records that support the distribution of salary or wages across each activity or cost objective.
Budget estimates alone do not qualify as final support for federal-award salary charges. Budgeted hours can help with interim accounting, but the agency must review actual work after the fact and adjust the final charge so it is accurate, allowable, and properly allocated. The common mistake is approving a grant charge from the budget without reconciling it to actual time worked.
A simple time record is enough for a one-off weekly total, a small department, or a quick payroll check. It stops being enough when employees split time across grants, programs, cost objectives, shifts, and funding sources. At that point, the agency needs approval status, locked periods, exports, and reports that finance, payroll, and program managers can review from the same source.
Everhour fits the managed workflow when tracked time needs to feed configurable reports instead of isolated spreadsheets. Everhour Reporting can group time by project, member, client, task, comments, billable time, labor costs, invoice status, budget metrics, and integration custom fields, then export reports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF for review and archive work.
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Payroll review needs daily hours worked, total hours worked each workweek, employee identity, work period, pay code, and approval status. For covered nonexempt employees under the FLSA, records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. Public agencies also need enough detail to review overtime, compensatory time, time off, and corrections before payroll closes.
Budget estimates can support interim accounting only. Under 2 CFR 200.430, final salary and wage charges to U.S. federal awards must be supported by records that accurately reflect work performed. The agency must review actual work after the fact and adjust the final charge so the allocation is accurate, allowable, and assigned to the right award, activity, or cost objective.
State and local government agencies may provide compensatory time off instead of cash overtime under prescribed conditions. The FLSA accrual rate is at least 1.5 hours of compensatory time for each overtime hour worked. Records should separate regular hours, overtime hours, comp time earned, comp time used, and the workweek that created the overtime.
The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely for Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work. For covered nonexempt employees, the federal baseline is overtime after 40 hours worked in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate, unless another law, policy, or agreement adds a different premium.
Employee time records contain personal information, schedules, work locations, activity notes, and sometimes pay context. U.S. businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act. FTC guidance says companies keeping sensitive information about customers or employees should collect only what they need, protect it, and dispose of it securely.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time, budgets, costs, and project data into configurable reports with 45+ columns, grouping, metadata filters, date ranges, and conditional formatting. Government teams can export CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF reports for payroll review, management review, spreadsheet work, and archive needs.
Everhour works standalone or inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Time logged inside those tools flows into one reporting layer, so project managers can keep task work in place while finance reviews consolidated time by person, project, and period.
Track approved hours by program, project, and person, then use Everhour Reporting to export review-ready time data for payroll review, management reporting, and archive work.
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