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Delaware follows the federal rule: time and a half after 40 hours in a workweek, with no daily overtime threshold. Put your week in below — the thresholds on this page are already loaded, and every line of the result names the rule it came from.
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Delaware · 40h/week
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
$1,991.00
87h across 2 workweeks · $77.00 of it earned above straight time
workweeks in this period
what this week should pay · gross
45h
$1,045.00
Assumes a Sunday workweek. Your employer sets this and it is printed on your stub — the app asks properly.
missed by a flat tracker
+$77.00
Multiplying every hour by $22.00 shows $1,914.00 for this period.
This, automatically, every shift.
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| rule | threshold | rate | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly overtime | Over 40 h in a workweek | 1.5× the regular rate | 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1) |
| Daily overtime | No Delaware threshold | 1× a long day pays straight time until the week passes 40 | — |
| Regular rate | Base wage plus nondiscretionary bonuses and shift differentials | 1× what every multiplier above is applied to | 29 C.F.R. Part 778 — what goes into the regular rate |
There is one count in Delaware: hours inside the workweek. The length of any single day matters only through the weekly total.
The threshold is only half of the arithmetic. The other half is the workweek: a fixed, recurring 168-hour period your employer designates, which can begin on any day at any hour and is usually printed on your stub. It decides which hours land past 40, and it is not necessarily the calendar week or your pay period. Two pay stubs covering the same seven days can owe different amounts if the workweek boundary sits in a different place.
Weekly overtime does not show in the shape of a week — 40 hours can be four days or six.
Five ordinary days, a long Friday and a Saturday morning. At $24.00 an hour, that is 46h across 6 days in Delaware.
40h of it is straight time — $960.00. The 6h past 40 in the week pay time and a half, $36.00 an hour — $216.00. The week comes to $1,176.00.
The ledger in the calculator arranges the same money the way payroll does: every hour at the base rate first — $1,104.00 — and then the premium added on top of it. Same total, different bookkeeping. A tracker that multiplies $24.00 by every hour and stops there reports $1,104.00 for this week, which is $72.00 short.
Overtime rules do not reach every job. The best-known carve-outs are the executive, administrative and professional exemptions — the white-collar exemptions — and they turn on the work actually performed together with a salary basis and a salary level. Job titles are not part of the test: calling a shift lead a manager does not by itself change what the week owes, and neither does paying someone a salary.
Other categories sit outside the ordinary rule as well — outside sales, certain commissioned retail work, some drivers covered by the Motor Carrier Act, farm work, and a number of seasonal and transport jobs. The federal definitions are written out in 29 C.F.R. Part 541, linked in the sources below.
Delaware follows the federal standard here, so the federal exemptions are the ones to read. If the number above and your stub disagree and you are plainly covered, the difference is usually one of two things: the workweek your employer designated, or the regular rate — a bonus or a differential folded in, or left out.
Weekly. Delaware sets no daily threshold, so a twelve-hour day owes no premium on its own — those hours go into the week's total like any others, and the count that decides your pay is hours past 40 in a single workweek.
No. Four ten-hour days is 40 hours, and the weekly rule starts past 40 hours, not at them. Day length does not matter in Delaware: four tens, five eights and three long shifts all pay the same if the week's total is the same.
No Delaware statute sets a double-time rate. Where double time appears on a stub here it comes from a union agreement, a company policy or a holiday practice — worth having in writing, but it is an agreement rather than the law. What the statute requires is time and a half past 40 hours in a workweek, with no daily threshold.
Delaware has no seventh-day rule. Those hours count toward the workweek like any others, so a seven-day stretch usually produces overtime through the weekly total instead: seven eight-hour days is 56 hours, of which 16 are past 40.
Usually, yes. The multiplier is applied to the regular rate, not to your base wage, and the regular rate takes in nondiscretionary bonuses, production and attendance bonuses, and shift differentials for the week they were earned. An overtime hour in a week with a night differential is worth more than base × 1.5. Bonuses that are genuinely discretionary — not promised in advance — stay out of it. The federal rules for building the regular rate are at 29 C.F.R. Part 778 and apply in Delaware.
Not by itself. A salary is a way of paying, not an exemption. The white-collar exemptions turn on the work actually performed together with how and how much you are paid, and the duties tests at 29 C.F.R. Part 541 do not include job titles. A salaried employee whose duties fall outside those tests is owed overtime on the same 40-hour week as anyone else.
Rules stop at the state line, and the work often does not. These are the ones checked most often next to Delaware.
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.
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