Gross pay calculator
Estimate your hourly paycheck before tax: hours times your rate, plus overtime, for a weekly, biweekly or monthly pay period.
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Gross pay before tax (weekly)
Enter your hourly rate and the hours you worked.
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How to use the gross pay calculator
- Enter your hourly rate. Pick a currency if you're not paid in US dollars. Amounts are never converted.
- Enter your hours. Type the hours for each day of your workweek, or one total for the week. 8:30 and 8.5 both mean eight and a half hours.
- Choose the overtime rule. Weekly pays overtime over 40 hours a week, the US federal rule. Daily (CA) adds overtime over 8 and double time over 12 hours a day, as in California. None pays straight time.
- Add other earnings and pick a pay period. Tips, a bonus or commission are added once. The result shows gross pay for your pay period and for every other period.
How gross pay is worked out
Gross pay = regular hours × rate + overtime hours × rate × 1.5 + double-time hours × rate × 2 + other earnings.
With the weekly rule, hours up to 40 in the workweek are regular and the rest are overtime. You can change the threshold and the multiplier, and add double time after a second threshold. With the daily rule, each day is split first: up to 8 hours regular, 8 to 12 overtime, over 12 double time. Regular hours that push the week past 40 then become overtime too. Hours already paid as daily overtime are not counted again, so nothing is paid twice.
Hours are kept exact to the second, and each pay line is rounded to the cent once, at the end, so the lines always add up to the total.
Examples at $20 an hour
| Hours in the week | Rule | Weekly gross |
|---|---|---|
| 40 (five 8-hour days) | Any | $800.00 |
| 45 (five 9-hour days) | Over 40 a week | $950.00 |
| 45 (five 9-hour days) | Daily (California) | $950.00 |
| 30 (three 10-hour days) | Over 40 a week | $600.00 |
| 30 (three 10-hour days) | Daily (California) | $660.00 |
| 13 (one 13-hour day) | Daily (California) | $320.00 |
What this estimate leaves out
This is gross pay before tax and deductions, worked out from the rule you choose. It's an estimate, not payroll, tax or legal advice. Your real paycheck can differ because of:
- Income tax, Social Security, Medicare and state withholding, and deductions such as health insurance or a 401(k).
- Bonuses and commissions that, under US federal rules, can raise the rate overtime is paid at.
- Shift differentials, paid breaks, meal and rest period premiums, and holiday pay.
- Other state rules. A few other states also have daily overtime, and some jobs are exempt from overtime.
To check overtime across several weeks, where each week counts on its own, use the overtime pay calculator. To add up clock-in and clock-out times first, use the time card calculator.
Frequently asked questions
How do I calculate gross pay for hourly work?
Multiply the regular hours by your hourly rate, then add overtime hours times the overtime rate. 45 hours at $20 with time and a half over 40: 40 × $20 = $800, plus 5 × $30 = $150, so $950 gross for the week.
What's the difference between gross pay and net pay?
Gross pay is everything you earned before anything is taken out. Net pay, or take-home pay, is what's left after income tax, Social Security and Medicare (in the US), retirement contributions, health insurance and other deductions. This calculator shows gross pay only.
Why doesn't this calculator take out taxes?
Withholding depends on your country, state, filing status, allowances, benefits and year-to-date pay, and getting it wrong is worse than leaving it out. Your pay stub or your employer's payroll team can tell you the real deductions.
How does California daily overtime work?
Under California Labor Code section 510, hours over 8 in a workday and over 40 in a workweek are paid at 1.5 times the regular rate, and hours over 12 in a workday at double. On the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek, the first 8 hours are at 1.5 times and the rest at double. Alternative workweek schedules and exempt jobs have other rules.
How is monthly pay worked out from a weekly paycheck?
A year has 52 weeks but 12 months, so a month is not 4 weeks. The calculator multiplies the weekly gross by 52 and divides by 12 for monthly pay, or by 24 for pay twice a month. Every two weeks is simply two weeks of pay.