California Overtime Wage Calculator

California Overtime
Wage Calculator

Not sure how to properly calculate overtime for California? This easy and convenient tool will help employers and employees within the state of California accurately calculate overtime hours worked.

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*tip - enter decimal(8.5) or hh:mm(8:30) formats
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What Is the California Overtime Law

California's overtime law requires employers to pay nonexempt employees who are 18 years of age or older for overtime hours worked. Employees who are between 16-17 and not required by law to attend school are also entitled to overtime benefits. This law includes nonexempt employees who are paid hourly, salary, and on-piece rates.

An employer is required to pay employees one-and-one-half times their regular rates of pay for all hours exceeding eight hours in a workday and 40 hours in a workweek.

California overtime law mandates employees receive twice their regular pay when more than 12 hours are performed in a workday or more than eight hours are worked on their seventh consecutive working day.

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Who’s Excluded from Overtime Pay in California?

It's very important to understand who is and who’s not eligible to receive overtime benefits in the state of California. Although most employees in the state are eligible to receive overtime pay, there are certain types of employees who are not.

Pro tip: Employees do not have to be residents of California to qualify for California’s overtime laws?

Employees who are excluded from California overtime pay include:

Some unionized workers involved in collective bargaining agreements.
Employees who are labeled and classified as outside salespeople.
Workers who hold specific occupations with exempt overtime rules.
Employees who are classified as exempt, whose primary duties include professional, administrative, or executive roles.

Professional Exemption

A professional employee is a person employed in a professional capacity, including:

1. A person who earns more than twice the state minimum wage for full-time employment. 2. Someone who works in medicine, law, optometry, architecture, dentistry, engineering, accounting, teaching, art, and science and does not involve manual labor.
For additional information on California’s overtime exemption rule, we recommend visiting the State of California Department of Industrial Regulations.

Administrative Exemption

An employee with an administrative exemption is employed in an administrative capacity, including:

1. An employee or someone who assists a proprietor, or an employee who is employed in an executive or administrative capacity. 2. An individual who is under only general supervision and works along specialized or technical lines that requires training, experience, or knowledge. 3. A worker who performs office or nonmanual work. 4. One who earns more than two-times the state’s minimum wage.

Executive Exemption

An employee with an executive exemption is one who works in an executive capacity, including:

1. An individual whose monthly earnings are not higher by two times the state minimum wage for full-time employment. 2. A person who regularly and customarily uses independent and discretionary judgment. 3. An employee who routinely directs the work of two or more employees/workers. 4. Responsibilities and duties involving the management of the organization or customarily recognized department or subdivisions in which the employee is employed through. 5. A person of authority to hire or fire other employees. 6. Primarily classified to engage in duties that qualify as exemption.