Alberta Overtime Calculator
Alberta's Employment Standards Code pays overtime at 1.5× on whichever is GREATER for the week: total daily overtime (hours over 8 in each day) or weekly overtime (hours over 44 in the week) — the same hours are never paid twice. This page presets a daily-hours schedule and applies the greater-of model. A 45-hour week of five 9-hour days at $20/h has 5 daily overtime hours and 1 weekly overtime hour, so 5 hours are paid at $30: 40 × $20 + 5 × $30 = $950. Compressed workweeks, averaging arrangements (up to 52 weeks under a written agreement) and exempt occupations are not modelled.
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What this tool does
Alberta's Employment Standards Code pays overtime at 1.5× on whichever is GREATER for the week: total daily overtime (hours over 8 in each day) or weekly overtime (hours over 44 in the week) — the same hours are never paid twice. This page presets a daily-hours schedule and applies the greater-of model. A 45-hour week of five 9-hour days at $20/h has 5 daily overtime hours and 1 weekly overtime hour, so 5 hours are paid at $30: 40 × $20 + 5 × $30 = $950. Compressed workweeks, averaging arrangements (up to 52 weeks under a written agreement) and exempt occupations are not modelled.
How to use the Alberta Overtime Calculator
- Check Hourly wage: 20.
- Check Daily hours in the workweek, first day to seventh (comma separated): 9,9,9,9,9,0,0.
- Review the Alberta Overtime Calculator result and its exact-value comparison table.
- Verify assumptions before applying the result.
Formula
daily >8 through 12 at 1.5×; >12 at 2×; seventh consecutive workday first 8 at 1.5× and excess at 2×; remaining straight-time hours above 40 at 1.5× (no pyramiding)
- wage
- Hourly wage
- days
- Daily hours in the workweek, first day to seventh (comma separated)
Standard nonexempt California rules; excludes alternative workweeks, exemptions, special occupations and regular-rate adjustments. Source: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_overtime.htm
Worked example
Alberta Overtime Calculator: Hourly wage = 20; Daily hours in the workweek, first day to seventh (comma separated) = 9,9,9,9,9,0,0. Alberta's Employment Standards Code pays overtime at 1.5× on whichever is GREATER for the week: total daily overtime (hours over 8 in each day) or weekly overtime (hours over 44 in the week) — the same hours are never paid twice. This page presets a daily-hours schedule and applies the greater-of model. A 45-hour week of five 9-hour days at $20/h has 5 daily overtime hours and 1 weekly overtime hour, so 5 hours are paid at $30: 40 × $20 + 5 × $30 = $950. Compressed workweeks, averaging arrangements (up to 52 weeks under a written agreement) and exempt occupations are not modelled.
Inputs
- Hourly wage20
- Daily hours in the workweek, first day to seventh (comma separated)9,9,9,9,9,0,0
Result
- Gross weekly pay$950.00
- Regular hours40
- Time-and-a-half hours5
Alberta overtime reference (Employment Standards Code)
| Rule | Value |
|---|---|
| Daily overtime | 1.5× after 8 h in a day |
| Weekly overtime | 1.5× after 44 h in the week |
| Which applies | The GREATER of the daily total or the weekly total |
| Example: five 9-h days at $20/h | $950 gross (5 OT hours) |
Results explained
- Gross pay
- Gross pay from the formula above. Standard nonexempt California rules; excludes alternative workweeks, exemptions, special occupations and regular-rate adjustments. Source: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_overtime.htm
- Regular hours
- Regular hours from the formula above. Standard nonexempt California rules; excludes alternative workweeks, exemptions, special occupations and regular-rate adjustments. Source: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_overtime.htm
- Time-and-a-half hours
- Time-and-a-half hours from the formula above. Standard nonexempt California rules; excludes alternative workweeks, exemptions, special occupations and regular-rate adjustments. Source: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_overtime.htm
- Double-time hours
- Double-time hours from the formula above. Standard nonexempt California rules; excludes alternative workweeks, exemptions, special occupations and regular-rate adjustments. Source: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_overtime.htm
Frequently asked questions
Both tests run: hours over 8 in a day, and hours over 44 in a week. You are paid 1.5× on whichever total is greater for that week — daily and weekly overtime are compared, never added together.
Daily overtime is 5 hours (1 per day), weekly overtime is 1 hour (45 − 44); the greater is 5, so pay is 40 × $20 + 5 × $30 = $950 gross.
Daily overtime is 0 (no day over 8), weekly overtime is 2 (46 − 44), so the greater figure is 2 hours at 1.5× — the weekly test is the one that pays.
Yes, under a written overtime agreement, banked hours are taken as time off at the same 1.5× rate (1.5 hours off per overtime hour) or paid out; unused banked time is paid out at the overtime rate. This page prices the pay value either way.
Managers, supervisors and various listed professionals and industries have exemptions or modified rules, and averaging arrangements can change the thresholds. This page models the standard greater-of rule for non-exempt employees only.