Double Time Pay Calculator
A single overtime multiplier prices a simple week. A week with daily double time, weekly overtime and a holiday needs each band priced separately before the total means anything.
Weekly pay
$960.00
- Effective hourly rate
- $25.26
- Straight-time pay
- $840.00
- Overtime pay
- $72.00
- Double-time pay
- $48.00
- Holiday pay
- $0.00
- Share of pay above straight time
- 12.50%
- Annual figure
- $49,920.00
Values update as you type. This calculator covers the single scenario its formula assumes — see Common Mistakes for what it leaves out.
The formula this calculator uses
weekly pay = straight hours x rate + OT hours x rate x 1.5 + double time hours x rate x 2
- R
- Base hourly rate
- h_r
- Straight-time hours, paid at the base rate
- h_1
- Overtime hours, paid at one and a half times the base rate
- h_2
- Double-time hours, paid at twice the base rate
How to check the result by hand
- 1
Split the hours into bands
Count the straight-time hours, the overtime hours, the double-time hours and any holiday hours separately. The split comes from which threshold each hour passed, not from an average.
- 2
Price the straight-time band
Straight hours times the base rate. This band is never uplifted, so the multiplier is exactly one.
- 3
Price the lifted bands
Multiply the overtime hours by one and a half times the rate, the double-time hours by twice the rate, and any holiday hours by the holiday rate you have entered.
- 4
Add the bands and find the effective rate
The four results add to the weekly pay. Dividing by every hour worked, premium hours included, gives the effective rate the week actually paid.
- 5
Read the premium share and the annual figure
The share of pay from lifted bands shows the dependence on premium hours, and fifty-two times the weekly total gives a rough annual figure assuming the week repeats.
For worked examples, common mistakes and the limits of this formula, read the full How To Calculate Double Time Pay page.