Overtime thresholds: every US state and Canadian province (2026)
Overtime does not begin at the same hour everywhere. Forty hours in a workweek is the federal floor in the United States and the most common line in Canada, but 5 jurisdictions set the weekly threshold higher — Nova Scotia pays straight time until hour 49 — and 12 of them count the day as well as the week, so one long Tuesday can produce overtime in a week that never reaches 40 hours.
The table is the page. Where a daily and a weekly threshold both exist, the two are never added: 8 jurisdictions take the hours already paid as daily overtime out of the weekly count, and 4 run both calculations and pay the larger one. That single column decides most disagreements about a long week.
51 US jurisdictions (50 states and the District of Columbia) and 13 Canadian provinces and territories, A to Z within each. Thresholds are hours worked; the multiplier applies to each hour past them.
How to read this table
- Weekly threshold
- The hour count in a single workweek after which every further hour carries the multiplier. 40 means hour 41 is the first premium hour; 44 means hour 45 is.
- Daily threshold
- The same idea inside one workday, counted on its own. A dash means the jurisdiction has none, so a 13-hour Tuesday there adds nothing extra unless the week itself runs long.
- Multiplier
- 1.5× is time and a half on the regular rate for that hour. 1.5× → 2× marks a second daily tier: double time past the hour named in the special rules column. 1.5× min. wage means the statute fixes the overtime rate against the provincial minimum wage instead of against your own rate.
- Special rules
- What the two threshold columns cannot say: the second daily tier, a seventh-consecutive-day premium, and — where a daily and a weekly threshold both exist — how the two interact. No hour counted twice means an hour already paid as daily overtime is taken out before the weekly total is tested. Greater of daily or weekly means both calculations are run and the larger one is paid. Neither ever means the two are added together.
- Source
- The statute section or the government page that publishes the number. Every row links to its own, and every row carries an anchor: add #texas or #ontario to this page’s address to land on it.
- The regular rate
- No column can carry this one: the regular rate is not always your base hourly rate. Shift differentials and non-discretionary bonuses are generally folded into it before the multiplier applies, which lifts the value of every overtime hour in that week.
What changed in 2026
Prince Edward Island · 30 June 2026
Prince Edward Island moved its overtime threshold from 48 hours a week to 44 on 30 June 2026, under a new Employment Standards Act. Most comparison tables, payroll blogs and HR handbooks still print 48. If a PEI pay stub for a week worked after that date treats hour 45 as straight time, 44 is the number to check it against, unless the job falls under an Employment Standards Board order setting a longer standard week. Orders made under the old Act carry over until the Board varies or revokes them, and the old exemption order set 55-hour weeks for trucking, seafood processing and highway and road work.
No other threshold in the table moved this year. The dollar figures in the New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador rows follow the minimum wage and moved on 1 April 2026. Nova Scotia’s floor for its listed classes, in the fine print below, steps up on 1 April 2026 and again from 1 October 2026, and from 2027 it adjusts each 1 April. Thresholds change far less often than minimum wages do, which is why the wrong ones survive so long in secondary sources — every row here is re-verified against its statute each January, and the review date above says when that last happened.
Fine print the columns cannot hold
Nevada
The 8-hour daily rule reaches only employees earning less than 1.5× the state minimum wage. Above that line Nevada is a weekly-only state. It also measures the workday as a rolling 24 hours from the start of work rather than from a fixed clock hour.
Oregon
The 10-hour daily rule is industry-specific — manufacturing and cannery work. Most Oregon employees are on the weekly rule alone, and since 2017 anyone who crosses both thresholds is paid the greater of the two calculations rather than both.
Alaska
Employers with fewer than four employees are outside Alaska’s overtime requirement altogether, daily and weekly, though federal law may still apply.
Saskatchewan, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut
The weekly threshold drops from 40 to 32 in a week that contains a statutory holiday, so a normal five-day week around a holiday can produce overtime hours.
Nova Scotia
Listed occupation classes — managers, IT professionals, oil and gas work, flat-rate mechanics and others — are paid 1.5× the minimum wage after 48 hours rather than 1.5× their own rate. The floor is 1.5× $16.75 = $25.13 an hour from 1 April 2026, and 1.5× $17.00 = $25.50 an hour from 1 October 2026.
- The federal rules, with a calculator →
Federally regulated work in Canada
Banks, airlines, railways, telecommunications and interprovincial trucking are covered by the Canada Labour Code rather than by the province they operate in. The provincial rows do not describe those jobs.
Coverage comes first
Every row assumes the work is covered by the overtime rules at all. Salaried employees who meet the duties and salary tests for an exemption, and some agricultural, transport and live-in roles, sit outside them. A contract or a collective agreement can set better terms than the statute, and often does.
Run your own week against these rules
Every jurisdiction in the table has a page with the calculator already set to its rules — US states and Canadian provinces. The app runs the same rules on a whole pay period and keeps the record.
Overtally for iPhone — coming soonsources
- 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1)
- Cal. Labor Code § 510
- 7 CCR 1103-1 (COMPS Order), Rule 4.1
- Nev. Rev. Stat. § 608.018
- Employment Standards Act, 2000, s. 22(1)
- Employment Standards Act, s. 40
- Employment Standards Code, s. 21
- Labour Standards Code, Minimum Wage Order (General)
- Employment Standards Act, s. 16
- Employment Standards Act (2026)
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.