Quebec Overtime Pay Calculator (2026)
Quebec pays time and a half after 40 hours in a week, with no daily threshold. Enter the week you actually worked and it is priced against that rule, hour by hour, with the arithmetic shown for every line.
Act respecting labour standards, s. 52
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- 40h/week → ×1.5
this week · 45 h · under Quebec’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
$1,045.00
Assumes a Sunday workweek. Your employer sets this and it is printed on your stub — the app asks properly.
+$55.00 over the $990.00 a flat tracker shows for this week.
Act respecting labour standards, s. 52 · 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 soonThe rule Quebec applies
Overtime in Quebec turns over at 40h/week. Everything below comes from Act respecting labour standards, s. 52, linked in the card.
Quebec · 2026
Act respecting labour standards, s. 52| rule | applies when | paid at |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly overtime | Past 40 hours in a work week | 1.5× your regular rate |
| The two together | There is no daily rule to combine — only the week counts | — |
worth knowing
- Time off in lieu is available at the employee's request, at 1.5 hours per overtime hour, and must be taken within 12 months.
- Annual leave and paid statutory holidays count as time worked when overtime is computed (s. 56). If the holiday falls on a day you normally work, that day's usual hours are added to the hours you actually worked (if your hours vary from day to day, use your average over the 4 weeks before the holiday); a holiday on your usual day off adds nothing.
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.
Quebec sets the day's pay by its own formula: Wages in the 4 complete weeks of pay before the week of the holiday, excluding overtime, ÷ 20. 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
Quebec 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 — Quebec keeps these, under the name the statute uses here. Each one opens who else in Canada owes the day: National Patriots' Day · Thanksgiving
The Quebec 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.
The usual exchange is an hour and a half of paid time off for each overtime hour — the same 1.5 the money would have carried, converted into time. Alberta is the one jurisdiction that banks hour for hour instead, which makes the choice between pay and time off a different decision there than it is here.
Banked time also expires. Each jurisdiction sets a window — months rather than years — within which the time has to be taken, and what is still in the bank when it closes has to be paid out in money. If you are banking hours, the date they run out matters as much as the count, and both belong on your own record rather than only in the employer’s system.
A week, priced
50h at $26.00 an hour, run through Quebec’s rules by the same engine as the calculator above.
No day is marked in premium colour, and that is the point: in Quebec the premium belongs to the week, not the day. Five ten-hour days are five ordinary days until the week itself passes 40 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× | 10h | +$13.00 | $130.00 |
| What the week is worth | 50h | $1,430.00 |
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 Quebec 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.
Quebec overtime — the questions people ask
Is overtime daily or weekly in Quebec?
Weekly. Quebec counts hours past 40 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 40 hours owes no premium at all.
What is the overtime rate in Quebec?
Time and a half of your regular rate. Every hour is paid once at that rate, and each overtime hour adds half of it again on top; the two together make the 1.5. Payroll normally prints them as separate lines, which is why the worked example above does too.
Does Quebec pay double time?
Not under Quebec 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 Quebec?
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?
Effectively yes. In Quebec a paid statutory holiday you take off counts as hours worked when overtime is calculated: the hours you would normally have worked that day are added to the hours you actually worked. With a normal 8-hour day, a week containing a holiday reaches overtime after 32 hours of actual work.
Every province and territory
- Alberta8h/day · 44h/week
- British Columbia8h/day · 40h/week
- Manitoba8h/day · 40h/week
- New Brunswick44h/week
- Newfoundland and Labrador40h/week
- Northwest Territories8h/day · 40h/week
- Nova Scotia48h/week
- Nunavut8h/day · 40h/week
- Ontario44h/week
- Prince Edward Island44h/week
- Saskatchewan8h/day · 40h/week
- Yukon8h/day · 40h/week
sources
- Act respecting labour standards, s. 52
- Act respecting labour standards, s. 62 — 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.