Does California overtime stack daily and weekly overtime on the same hour?

No. The calculator classifies each worked hour at the single highest applicable multiplier. Daily overtime, weekly overtime, double time, and seventh-day rules are not stacked on top of each other for the same hour.

Why does the calculator require seven daily hour entries?

California daily overtime, double time, and seventh-consecutive-day overtime cannot be determined from a weekly total. The daily pattern matters.

Should bonuses and commissions be included?

Nondiscretionary bonuses, commissions, and similar earnings can affect the regular rate used for overtime premium pay. This tool includes a field for those earnings for the workweek.

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California Overtime, Double-Time, and Seventh-Day Calculator

Enter each workday separately. The calculator applies California’s daily, weekly, double-time, and seventh-consecutive-day rules hour by hour so a single hour receives only the highest applicable multiplier.

Scope: This is a screening calculator for nonexempt hourly California workweeks. It does not decide exemptions, alternative workweek schedules, union rules, industry exceptions, make-up time, public housekeeping exceptions, or whether an employer used the correct regular rate.

California statewide minimum wage

$16.90/hour

Effective 2026-01-01 · source

Enter the workweek

Use the actual sequence of seven consecutive workdays. If the employee’s workweek starts on another day, place day 1 in Sunday and continue in order; the seventh entry is the potential seventh consecutive workday.

The California overtime rules modeled here

California’s DLSE overtime FAQ describes the general rule: one and one-half times the regular rate after 8 hours in a workday, after 40 hours in a workweek, and for the first eight hours on the seventh consecutive day in a workweek. It describes double time after 12 hours in a workday and after eight hours on the seventh consecutive day. The source registry for these rules points to DLSE’s overtime FAQ.

Why this calculator is stricter than a weekly-total tool

10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 hours = 50 total hours Daily overtime already marks 2 hours on each day at 1.5x Weekly overtime does not add a second premium to those same hours Result: 40 regular hours, 10 overtime hours, 0 double-time hours

Regular rate and bonus input

Overtime is based on the regular rate of pay, not just the base hourly wage. Nondiscretionary production bonuses, commissions, piece-rate earnings, and similar compensation can increase the rate used for the premium portion. The calculator uses a simple workweek allocation: bonus or commission divided by total hours worked, then added to the hourly rate for the overtime premium estimate.

What this estimate does not determine

Whether the worker is nonexempt and covered by California overtime law.
Whether an alternative workweek schedule, collective-bargaining agreement, agricultural rule, domestic-worker rule, or occupation-specific exception changes the result.
Whether a payment is discretionary or nondiscretionary for regular-rate purposes.
Whether the employer’s defined workday and workweek were lawful and consistently applied.
Meal, rest, split-shift, reporting-time, final-pay, wage-statement, interest, or penalty amounts.

Worked examples

Example 1: 13-hour day

hours in one day = 13 regular = 8 1.5x overtime = 4 2x double time = 1

Example 2: seventh consecutive day

six days at 8 hours + seventh day at 9 hours first six days = 40 regular hours + 8 weekly overtime hours seventh day = 8 hours at 1.5x + 1 hour at 2x no hour receives both weekly overtime and seventh-day overtime

Sources and verification

Rules were checked against the California DLSE overtime FAQ and the site data registry. Automated tests cover daily overtime, double time, weekly no-stacking, seventh-day classification, nondiscretionary bonus regular-rate math, invalid input, and visible result rendering. See the site’s methodology for how source rules become calculator tests.