Add the hours you actually worked across a seven-day workweek. Enter decimal hours for each day, including days off as zero. The tool totals the week and also shows whole hours and minutes. It does not decide whether any hours qualify for overtime.
Weekly hours total
Change the inputs to see the estimate. Calculations stay in your browser.
Enter hours actually worked in your employer’s defined workweek. This total does not determine overtime eligibility or pay.
How to use the seven-day grid
Use Day 1 for the first day of your employer’s fixed workweek, even if it does not begin on Monday. Enter the hours actually worked for each consecutive day through Day 7. For example, if you worked 8 hours on four days, 9.5 hours on one day, and did not work the other two days, enter 8, 8, 8, 8, 9.5, 0, 0. The total is 41.5 hours, or 41 hours 30 minutes.
The formula is simply weekly hours = Day 1 + Day 2 + Day 3 + Day 4 + Day 5 + Day 6 + Day 7. A decimal is a fraction of an hour: 15 minutes is 0.25, 30 minutes is 0.5 and 45 minutes is 0.75. Do not type 8.30 to mean eight hours and 30 minutes; enter 8.5. If you know clock-in and clock-out times rather than decimal hours, use the time card calculator.
What belongs in the total?
For the federal FLSA baseline, record hours actually worked. Short rest breaks are generally counted as work time; a bona fide meal period can generally be excluded when you are completely relieved from duty. A deduction for a meal break that you spent working can make a time record inaccurate. Travel, training or on-call time may require a closer look at the facts. This calculator does not classify those periods for you.
The U.S. Department of Labor describes a workweek as a fixed, regularly recurring 168-hour period. A calendar week or pay period may not match the employer’s workweek. If a shift crosses the workweek boundary, allocate its hours to the workweek in which they occurred before entering your daily totals. Do not average two separate weeks together when checking the federal overtime baseline.
Frequently asked questions
Is 41.5 hours the same as 41 hours and 50 minutes?
No. Half an hour is 30 minutes, so 41.5 hours means 41 hours and 30 minutes. Fifty minutes is about 0.8333 hours.
Does this calculator pay overtime automatically?
No. It adds time only. Covered, nonexempt employees generally qualify for federal overtime after 40 hours worked in a workweek, but eligibility, regular rate and state rules require a separate assessment. Once you have a reliable hours total, use the overtime calculator for a simple single-rate estimate.
Can I use paid leave as a day’s hours?
Keep paid leave separate from hours actually worked when using this grid for a federal overtime estimate. Your employer’s policy or an applicable agreement may treat paid leave more generously for other purposes.
Wondering whether your schedule counts as part-time? Read how many hours a week is part-time and why different rules use different thresholds.
Sources and methodology
Reviewed October 7, 2026. The sum and decimal-to-minutes conversion are arithmetic. Guidance on workweeks and hours worked is based on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Fact Sheet #22, Fact Sheet #21 and Fact Sheet #23. All calculations run in your browser. This educational tool is not a legal determination or an official time record.