Minutes to Decimal Conversion

Reference table and formulas for converting clock-time minutes into decimal hours your payroll system can process.

Time-and-a-Half in Payroll

The regular-rate math behind 1.5x, including bonuses, differentials and multiple pay rates. Get the overtime number right.

Premium pay for nights, weekends and undesirable shifts. How to set rates, apply automatically and roll into the regular-rate calc.

Convert raw clock-in and clock-out times into total hours, accounting for breaks, rounding and overnight shifts.

When an employee works two different pay rates, FLSA requires a blended regular rate for overtime. The formula, walked through.

Configure your payroll system to calculate overtime correctly every run. Federal, state and local rules applied automatically.

When double-time kicks in by state, how to apply it on top of overtime and where the records have to show the breakdown.

Whether paid holidays and PTO count toward the 40-hour threshold under federal and state rules. Configure your system correctly.

Biweekly, semi-monthly and monthly payroll all complicate overtime. How to handle the workweek that crosses pay-period boundaries.

Seven-minute rule, fair rounding and the policies that hold up under audit. Set the standard once, apply it consistently.

Salaried staff who are nonexempt still earn overtime. The fluctuating workweek method and the alternatives, with the math.

Project overtime spend before the week closes. Trend data, scheduling tools and approval rules that bring the number down.