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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: 9 jurisdictions take the hours already paid as daily overtime out of the weekly count, and 3 run both calculations and pay the larger one. That single column decides most disagreements about a long week.
Last reviewed · maintained by Ihor Bezrukavnyk · how we calculate
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.
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.
Nothing else in the table moved this year. 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.
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 2018 anyone who crosses both thresholds is paid the greater of the two calculations rather than both.
Alaska
Employers with fewer than four employees sit outside the daily rule.
Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories
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.
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.
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.
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.