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Double time pays twice your regular rate, and statute asks for it in only three places: past 12 hours in a California workday, past 8 hours on a California seventh consecutive day, and past 12 hours in a British Columbia day. Enter your week and see whether any hour reached that second tier.
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the long days, priced
A differential is not a separate bonus. It folds into the regular rate the multiplier is applied to, so every overtime hour that week gets more valuable — paying 1.5× on base plus 1.0× on the differential is the classic short-pay.
Sun 12 AM
Biweekly period · gross
$2,090.00
87h across 2 workweeks · $176.00 of it earned above straight time
workweeks in this period
what this week should pay · gross
45h
$1,144.00
No weekly overtime owed: hours already paid a daily premium do not count again toward the 40. No hour is counted twice.
Assumes a Sunday workweek. Your employer sets this and it is printed on your stub — the app asks properly.
missed by a flat tracker
+$176.00
Multiplying every hour by $22.00 shows $1,914.00 for this period.
This, automatically, every shift.
US and Canada · works offline · no account.
Two jurisdictions, three rules. California runs a second daily tier and a seventh-day rule; British Columbia runs the second daily tier alone. No other US state and no other province sets a general double-time requirement, and the federal Fair Labor Standards Act never asks for more than one and a half however long the week runs.
| where | 2× starts | what the hours below it pay | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | Past 12 hours in a workday | Hours 8 to 12 of that day pay 1.5×; the first 8 are straight time. | Cal. Labor Code § 510 |
| California | Past 8 hours on the seventh consecutive day of a workweek | The first 8 hours of that seventh day pay 1.5×, however short the earlier days were. | Cal. Labor Code § 510 |
| British Columbia | Past 12 hours in a workday | Hours 8 to 12 of that day pay 1.5×; the first 8 are straight time. | Employment Standards Act, s. 40 |
Everything else called double time is contractual. That does not make it weaker — a collective agreement is enforceable on its own terms — but it does mean the agreement, not the statute, decides which hours qualify and what rate the multiplier is applied to.
California prices a long day in three bands. The first eight hours are straight time, hours nine through twelve are time and a half, and only the hours past the twelfth reach double time. At $22.00 an hour:
| band | multiplier | hourly | band total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours 1–8 | straight | $22.00 | $176.00 |
| Hours 9–12 | 1.5× | $33.00 | $132.00 |
| Hours 13–14 | 2× | $44.00 | $88.00 |
| The day | 14h | $396.00 |
Put that day into a week — 14 hours Monday, 12 Tuesday, 8 Wednesday, 10 Thursday — and the ledger separates the two premium tiers instead of blending them. The engine pays every hour at straight time first, then adds half the regular rate for the time-and-a-half hours and a full extra rate for the double-time ones.
44 hours, California
Red is every premium hour, both tiers. Nothing crossed the weekly 40 as straight time, so the weekly rule adds nothing.
| line | hours | rate | amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular | 44h | $22.00 | $968.00 |
| Daily overtime×1.5 · CA daily over 8 · Cal. Labor Code § 510 | 10h | $11.00 | $110.00 |
| Daily overtime×2 · CA daily over 12 · Cal. Labor Code § 510 | 2h | $22.00 | $44.00 |
| What the week should pay | 44h | $1,122.00 |
California’s other double-time rule has nothing to do with the length of a day. Work all seven days of one workweek and the seventh day pays time and a half for its first eight hours and double time after that, even if every day was short. The count runs inside the workweek and resets at its boundary, so seven consecutive days that straddle two workweeks can owe no seventh-day premium at all.
Six eight-hour days and a ten-hour seventh, at $22.00 an hour, produce three separate premium lines — and the weekly threshold still applies to the straight-time hours that passed 40.
| line | hours | rate | amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular | 58h | $22.00 | $1,276.00 |
| Seventh consecutive day×1.5 · CA seventh day · Cal. Labor Code § 510 | 8h | $11.00 | $88.00 |
| Seventh consecutive day×2 · CA seventh day · Cal. Labor Code § 510 | 2h | $22.00 | $44.00 |
| Weekly overtime×1.5 · CA weekly over 40 · Cal. Labor Code § 510 | 8h | $11.00 | $88.00 |
| What the week should pay | 58h | $1,496.00 |
Kentucky has a seventh-day rule too, but it stops at time and a half: work all seven days of a workweek and the seventh pays 1.5×, with no daily threshold and no second tier (KRS § 337.050). It is the only other seventh-day premium in US state law.
British Columbia sets the same two daily thresholds as California — 1.5× past 8 hours, 2× past 12 — alongside a 40-hour weekly rule. Fourteen hours Monday, ten Tuesday and three eight-hour days is 48 hours; at $24.00 an hour that is $1,152.00 of straight time, $72.00 for the six hours between 8 and 12, and $48.00 for the two hours past 12, which comes to $1,272.00 for the week. The weekly threshold adds nothing here, because the hours that already earned a daily premium are not counted toward it a second time.
The two-tier daily rule is the only one of its kind in Canada outside the federal jurisdiction.
One wrinkle worth knowing when a contract does pay a premium: under the federal rules, extra pay at a premium rate for daily overtime, weekend work or work outside agreed hours can be credited against the overtime the statute requires rather than added to it (29 U.S.C. § 207(e)(5)–(7) and § 207(h)). Whether your agreement is written that way is a question for the agreement, and it is the reason two people with the same hours and the same rate can be owed different totals.
every tier, every shift
Double-time hours are the easiest ones to lose, because they only appear at the end of a long day. The app tracks the day as it runs and tells you the moment the second tier starts.
Rarely. The federal US requirement stops at one and a half times the regular rate no matter how long the day or the week. Statutory double time in North America exists in California — past 12 hours in a workday, and past 8 hours on the seventh consecutive day of a workweek — and in British Columbia past 12 hours in a day. Everywhere else, 2× comes from a contract, a collective agreement or an employer policy.
After the twelfth hour of a workday, and after the eighth hour of the seventh consecutive day worked in one workweek. A 14-hour day at $22.00 an hour is 8 hours of straight time ($176.00), 4 hours at $33.00 ($132.00) and 2 hours at $44.00 ($88.00), which is $396.00 for the day.
Yes. Hours between 8 and 12 in a day pay time and a half and hours past 12 pay double time, which is the only two-tier daily rule in Canada outside the federal jurisdiction. British Columbia also has a 40-hour weekly threshold, and hours that already earned a daily premium are not counted a second time toward it.
Not because it is a holiday. Holiday premiums come from a policy or an agreement, and the rate is whatever that document says. In Canada each province requires statutory holiday pay plus a premium for working the day, calculated by a provincial formula that is separate from overtime and usually set at one and a half.
No. Each hour is paid at a single rate — the highest one that applies to it. In the ledger this shows up as two separate lines, one for the hours between 8 and 12 at 1.5× and one for the hours past 12 at 2×, and the hour counts are never the same hours twice.
Every figure on this page traces to the statute or agency page above. If one is out of date, tell us — corrections ship the same week.
Overtally computes what you should be paid before taxes. It does not calculate take-home pay, withholding or deductions, and it is not legal advice — it is your own record and your own estimate.