{"id":4557,"date":"2017-05-01T09:21:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T13:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/?p=4557"},"modified":"2021-03-27T16:07:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T20:07:36","slug":"calculate-overtime-per-workweek-not-pay-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/calculate-overtime-per-workweek-not-pay-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculate Overtime per Workweek, not Pay Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4558\" src=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/calculator-1859368_1280.jpg\" alt=\"calculate overtime per workweek\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/calculator-1859368_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/calculator-1859368_1280-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/calculator-1859368_1280-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/calculator-1859368_1280-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/calculator-1859368_1280-1080x810.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/>As you may know, the federal overtime provisions contained in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/general\/topic\/wages\/overtimepay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fair Labor Standards Act <\/a>(FLSA)\u00a0require that non-exempt employees covered by the Act must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a week at a rate of at least\u00a0time and one-half their regular rates of pay. One aspect of this that employers must ensure they do not overlook is how they are calculating overtime. Make sure you calculate overtime per\u00a0workweek, not per\u00a0pay period.<\/p>\n<p>The workweek is the 7-day, 168-hour period during which you track employee time to see if anyone has worked more than 40 hours and is therefore entitled to overtime. For instance, many companies set their workweek to begin at 12:00 am Sunday morning and end the following Saturday at midnight. Your workweek shouldn\u2019t fluctuate, and your employees should be aware of when it starts and ends (hopefully, that\u2019s in your <a href=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/what-we-offer\/employee-handbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">employee handbook<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0common error is that employers on a 2-week payroll cycle think that they don\u2019t have to pay overtime if the employee didn\u2019t work more than 80 hours in the pay period. That\u2019s not the case. If an employee worked 50 hours in week 1, and 30 hours in week 2, they\u2019d be entitled to 70 hours of straight time and 10 hours of overtime during that pay period. In week 1 they did 10 hours of work above and beyond 40 in the workweek and are therefore entitled to overtime, regardless of how many hours they worked during the rest of the pay period.<\/p>\n<p>Need help calculating overtime? Use our handy <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.gtm.com\/Business\/tax-calculator.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Tax Calculator<\/a> as a guide, and <a href=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/contact-gtm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contact us<\/a> at (518) 373-4111 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One aspect of the FLSA overtime rules that employers must ensure they do not overlook is how they are calculating overtime. Make sure you calculate overtime per workweek, not per pay period. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[5,34,54],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gtm-biz-blog-isolved","tag-department-of-labor","tag-flsa","tag-overtime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4559,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions\/4559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}