The Alaska daily overtime rule
Alaska’s wage-and-hour law requires overtime at 1.5 times the regular rate for hours worked over 8 in a day or over 40 in a workweek. The daily rule matters even when the week is under 40 hours. A 10-hour day in a 38-hour week can still create 2 daily overtime hours.
Basic formula
No stacking on the same hour
The calculator counts daily overtime first, removes those premium hours from the weekly straight-hour pool, and then applies the weekly 40-hour test. That gives the greater protection without paying two overtime premiums on the same hour.
Small-employer exemption and flexible schedules
The Alaska source registry includes a verified exemption for employers with fewer than 4 employees. AS 23.10.060(d) also describes a voluntary flexible work-hour plan. This page mentions that plan because it can matter, but it does not validate a plan or change the daily threshold. If a flexible plan is involved, use this as a baseline only.
What this does not determine
- Whether the worker is exempt from Alaska or federal overtime.
- Whether a voluntary flexible work-hour plan is valid and correctly documented.
- Multi-rate weighted-average regular-rate issues beyond the additional-pay field.
- Public contracts, prevailing wage, collective bargaining, or federal FLSA differences.
- Any double-time premium. Alaska double time is not rendered because the registry says no statewide double-time rule exists for this tool.
Worked examples
Example 1: one long day
Example 2: six 9-hour days
Sources and verification
The overtime thresholds, small-employer exemption, and no-double-time flag come from Alaska Department of Labor source pages in the site registry: Alaska Wage and Hour Act. Automated tests cover daily overtime under 40 weekly hours, weekly overtime without daily overtime, non-stacking daily plus weekly overtime, the under-4-employee exemption, invalid inputs, and visible result rendering.