New Brunswick Overtime Pay Calculator (2026)
New Brunswick sets overtime as a flat rate — 1.5× the provincial minimum wage after 44 hours in a week — not 1.5× your own hourly rate. Enter the week you actually worked and it is priced against that rule, hour by hour, with the arithmetic shown for every line.
Employment Standards Act, s. 16
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- 44h/week → ×1.5
this week · 45 h · under New Brunswick’s rules
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.
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The full receipt — every line opens into its arithmetic
45h worked
$1,001.00
Assumes a Sunday workweek. Your employer sets this and it is printed on your stub — the app asks properly.
+$11.00 over the $990.00 a flat tracker shows for this week.
Employment Standards Act, s. 16 · reviewed · How we calculate
This, automatically, every shift.
The app is the same engine running on every shift you work — offline, no account. It is on Google Play now; the iPhone version is next.
Overtally for iPhone — coming soonbefore you use this figure
The calculator pays 1.5× the rate you enter, which is what an employment contract or a collective agreement normally promises. New Brunswick’s statutory minimum is a different number: 1.5× the provincial minimum wage, whatever you earn. If your rate is above the minimum wage, the statute is only the floor and your agreement is what sets what you should be paid — check which one your employer is applying. The floor is 1.5× $15.90 = $23.85 an hour from 1 April 2026.
The rule New Brunswick applies
Overtime in New Brunswick turns over at 44h/week. Everything below comes from Employment Standards Act, s. 16, linked in the card.
New Brunswick · 2026
Employment Standards Act, s. 16| rule | applies when | paid at |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly overtime | Past 44 hours in a work week | 1.5× the provincial minimum wage |
| The two together | There is no daily rule to combine — only the week counts | — |
worth knowing
- If your wage is already above 1.5× the minimum wage, the statutory overtime rate can be lower than your regular rate — your contract governs from there.
- In 2026 the province opened a public consultation, closing 9 October, on whether overtime should instead be 1.5× the employee's regular wage. No change has been made: the rate above is the law until the regulation is amended.
Thresholds change at every border — every province and state sits side by side in one table. The rate itself is time and a half, half the rate again on top of each overtime hour.
Statutory holiday pay
A statutory holiday is not an unpaid day off. A qualifying employee is paid for it whether or not the business opens, and working the day is paid differently again — each jurisdiction sets whether that means holiday pay plus a premium for the hours worked, or regular pay plus a day off later.
One rule holds in every Canadian jurisdiction and is the easiest to get wrong: overtime pay is left out of the wage base the average is taken from. Averaging a gross figure that includes your premium hours overstates the holiday, which is why a big overtime week before a holiday does not raise it.
New Brunswick sets the day's pay by its own formula: Regular wages for the day; where wages vary, earnings excluding overtime over the 30 days before ÷ days worked. The window and the divisor change at every border — some jurisdictions average recent wages, some take a percentage, and some simply pay a normal day.
the part that surprises people
New Brunswick leaves overtime pay out of that wage base. A week with twelve hours of overtime in it raises that week's pay and does not raise the holiday pay by a cent — the two figures on the same stub are built from different money.
The days whose answer changes at the border — New Brunswick keeps these, under the name the statute uses here. Each one opens who else in Canada owes the day: Family Day · New Brunswick Day · Remembrance Day
The New Brunswick formula, the qualifying test and this year's holiday dates → →Every jurisdiction's holiday-pay rule in one table →
Banking overtime instead of taking the money
Most Canadian jurisdictions allow overtime to be taken as paid time off instead of pay — a time bank, or time off in lieu. It is not something an employer can simply decide: almost everywhere it takes a written agreement made before the hours are worked, and without one the overtime is money.
New Brunswick is an exception. The province’s employment standards guidance says the banking of hours is not permitted, so every overtime hour has to be paid in money, at no less than the minimum overtime rate of 1.5× the minimum wage.
A week, priced
50h at $26.00 an hour, run through New Brunswick’s rules by the same engine as the calculator above.
No day is marked in premium colour, and that is the point: in New Brunswick the premium belongs to the week, not the day. Five ten-hour days are five ordinary days until the week itself passes 44 hours — after which every further hour is overtime, whichever day it happened to fall on.
| line | hours | rate | amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular | 50h | $26.00 | $1,300.00 |
| Weekly overtime1.5× | 6h | +$13.00 | $78.00 |
| What the week is worth | 50h | $1,378.00 |
Every hour is paid once at $26.00; the premium lines add what overtime puts on top of that. Half the rate again for time and a half, the rate again for double time — the total is the same as multiplying each hour out at 1.5× or 2×, and it is the way payroll writes it on a stub.
Where these rules stop
Every jurisdiction writes an exemption list, and the categories repeat across the country: work that is genuinely managerial or supervisory, several licensed professions, some agricultural and fishing work, and roles paid entirely on commission away from the workplace. Some provinces add information-technology professionals, particular transport roles or specific industries on their own schedules. A job title does not settle the question — the work actually performed does, and the exemption list published by New Brunswick is where to check it.
Some jobs are not covered by provincial rules at all. Banks, airlines, railways, interprovincial trucking and shipping, telecommunications, broadcasting, ports and Crown corporations are federally regulated: their overtime comes from the Canada Labour Code — time and a half past 8 hours in a day or 40 in a week — no matter which province the work happens in.
A collective agreement can improve on the statutory minimum, and in some jurisdictions it can rearrange parts of it. If you have one, it is the first document to read, and the figures on this page are the floor it has to clear.
New Brunswick overtime — the questions people ask
Is overtime daily or weekly in New Brunswick?
Weekly. New Brunswick counts hours past 44 in a work week and nothing else — the length of any single day does not matter on its own. A 12-hour shift inside a week that never reaches 44 hours owes no premium at all.
What is the overtime rate in New Brunswick?
Time and a half, but of the provincial minimum wage rather than your own rate. New Brunswick fixes the overtime wage in statute, so it moves when the minimum wage moves and not when your pay does. Where your contract or collective agreement promises 1.5× your own rate, that promise is what governs — the statute is a floor beneath it.
Does New Brunswick pay double time?
Not under New Brunswick law. The statute sets a single overtime rate, time and a half. Double time here comes from a collective agreement or an employer policy — British Columbia is the only province or territory whose employment standards act sets a second tier.
Do salaried employees get overtime in New Brunswick?
Salary is a way of being paid, not an exemption. What decides it is whether the work falls into a class the statute excludes — genuinely managerial work, certain licensed professions, some farm and transport roles. A salaried employee outside those classes is owed overtime like anyone else, with the salary converted to an hourly rate to calculate it.
Can my employer average my hours over more than one week?
Only under a formal arrangement. Most Canadian jurisdictions allow hours to be averaged across two or more weeks, but it takes a written agreement and, in several of them, an approval or a permit on top. Without one, each work week stands on its own and is counted on its own.
Does a statutory holiday change the overtime threshold that week?
Not in New Brunswick — the threshold stays at 44. Hours you did not work are not hours worked, so a paid holiday you took off does not push the week over the line by itself. Other jurisdictions do move the line: Saskatchewan, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut drop to 32 hours in a holiday week, and Manitoba and Quebec count the holiday’s hours as hours worked.
Every province and territory
- Alberta8h/day · 44h/week
- British Columbia8h/day · 40h/week
- Manitoba8h/day · 40h/week
- Newfoundland and Labrador40h/week
- Northwest Territories8h/day · 40h/week
- Nova Scotia48h/week
- Nunavut8h/day · 40h/week
- Ontario44h/week
- Prince Edward Island44h/week
- Quebec40h/week
- Saskatchewan8h/day · 40h/week
- Yukon8h/day · 40h/week
sources
- Employment Standards Act, s. 16
- Minimum Wage Regulation, N.B. Reg. 2022-15, ss. 5, 9
- Employment Standards Act, ss. 18–23 — statutory holiday pay
- Canada Labour Code, Part III — hours of work and overtime
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.