When does overtime start in Florida?

Florida's verified weekly overtime threshold in the registry is 40 hours in a workweek for covered nonexempt employees. Some workers and employers may be exempt, and federal law may also apply.

Does Florida have daily overtime?

Florida's verified overtime registry does not list a statewide daily overtime trigger. The calculator therefore uses the weekly workweek rule and does not add overtime merely because one shift was longer than eight or twelve hours.

Can daily, weekly, or seventh-day premiums stack in Florida?

No. This calculator assigns an hour the single highest applicable overtime premium. It does not pay both a daily and weekly premium on the same hour, which avoids double-counting while still preserving the more protective verified trigger.

What does this Florida overtime calculator not decide?

It does not decide exempt status, whether the employer is covered by the FLSA or state law, how a bonus must be allocated across multiple workweeks, or whether a special industry rule, collective-bargaining agreement, public contract, or local ordinance changes the result.

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Florida has no independent state overtime law; covered workers use the federal FLSA overtime rule after 40 hours in a workweek, with the state source linked here confirming the state-law posture. — Source

Calculate Florida overtime pay

Enter one workweek. The calculator uses straight-time pay for all hours, then adds only the extra overtime premium for hours that qualify.

Florida overtime rule used by this calculator

Florida has no independent state overtime law in the verified registry source, so covered workers use the federal FLSA weekly-40 overtime rule. The page cites the state source that establishes that posture instead of implying a separate state rule exists.

Basic formula

straight-time pay = total hours × hourly rate regular rate = (straight-time pay + includable pay) ÷ total hours overtime premium = premium hours × regular rate × (1.5 − 1) gross pay = straight-time pay + includable pay + overtime premium

Worked example

Florida: weekly overtime only

45 hours at a single hourly rate weekly overtime hours = 45 − 40overtime premium = premium hours × regular rate × (1.5 − 1)

What this does not determine

Whether the worker is exempt from overtime under state law or the federal FLSA.
Whether the employer is covered by the FLSA, which matters especially when a state rule reaches only non-FLSA employers.
Multi-rate weighted-average regular-rate issues beyond the single additional-pay field.
Public works, prevailing wage, local ordinances, union contracts, agriculture, transportation, or other industry-specific rules.
Whether a bonus or commission must be allocated to a different workweek.

Sources and verification

This page reads the overtime threshold, multiplier, special daily/seventh-day flags, coverage cautions, and source URL from src/data/states.json. The visible source for this page is the verified registry source. Automated tests cover the state's distinctive branch, weekly math, non-stacking of premium hours, and visible result rendering.

Florida overtime law: the constitutional wage amendment that left overtime untouched

Florida's Article X, Section 24 of the Florida Constitution — passed by voters in November 2020 — mandates $1.00/year minimum wage increases on September 30 of each year (not January 1 like most states), reaching $15.00 on September 30, 2026. This is genuinely unusual: Florida is the only state using September 30 as the rollover date for a constitutionally mandated wage schedule. The implementing statute is Fla. Stat. § 448.110.

However, that constitutional amendment addressed minimum wage only. Florida enacted no state overtime statute and has no daily overtime rule. All overtime claims in Florida depend entirely on 29 U.S.C. § 207. The current effective minimum wage in Florida is $14.00 per hour from September 30, 2025 through September 29, 2026.

Wage claims in Florida — including minimum wage violations under Article X § 24 — can be brought through Florida Commerce (formerly the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, floridajobs.org), or through a private civil action. However, overtime disputes that rest solely on federal FLSA violations are enforced by the U.S. DOL Wage and Hour Division, not by Florida Commerce, because there is no state overtime statute conferring state jurisdiction.

How does Florida compare to its neighbors? Georgia has no meaningful state minimum wage above the federal $7.25 floor (its $5.15 statute is subordinate to FLSA). Alabama has no wage statute at all. Florida's constitutional schedule is therefore the most active wage-setting mechanism in the southeastern United States — but that activity is entirely in minimum wage, not overtime. Neither Florida, Georgia, nor Alabama has enacted daily overtime, a seventh-day rule, or any sub-weekly overtime trigger. A Florida worker earning 42 hours in a week earns time-and-a-half for 2 hours under federal FLSA; a California worker in the same scenario might also be owed daily overtime for individual shifts over 8 hours.

Coverage note: Florida's constitutional minimum wage provision is broader in some respects than the FLSA — it covers employers with two or more employees — but for overtime purposes, the FLSA enterprise and individual coverage tests govern.

Common questions

Florida's minimum wage is going up to $15. Did overtime rules change too?

No. Florida's constitutional minimum wage amendment (Art. X § 24) raises the wage floor on September 30 of each year and will reach $15.00 on September 30, 2026. That amendment covers minimum wage only. Overtime rules in Florida come entirely from the federal FLSA — time-and-a-half after 40 hours in a workweek — and the constitutional amendment made no change to them.

Why does Florida's minimum wage change on September 30 instead of January 1?

Florida's 2020 constitutional amendment set September 30 as the annual rollover date. That is unique nationally — most states use January 1 or July 1. This matters for overtime calculations because the minimum wage affects certain exemption thresholds and tipped-employee calculations. The September 30 date catches many employers off guard.

Where do I file an overtime complaint in Florida?

FLSA overtime complaints in Florida go to the U.S. DOL Wage and Hour Division. Florida Commerce (floridajobs.org) enforces the state's constitutional minimum wage provisions, but it has no authority over overtime because Florida has no state overtime statute. You can also sue privately under the FLSA.

Does Florida require daily overtime like California?

No. Florida has no daily overtime rule. California requires overtime after 8 hours in a day; Florida does not. Florida workers are owed overtime only after 40 hours in the workweek under the federal FLSA. Even a 14-hour shift in Florida does not create overtime for that day alone.