Time card FAQ

Subtract your start time from your end time, then subtract the unpaid lunch. 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM is 9 hours; minus a 30-minute lunch it is 8 hours 30 minutes, or 8.5 hours.

US federal law does not require lunch or coffee breaks. Some states do, and so do many employer policies. Check your state labor office or your handbook.

Under US federal rules, short breaks of about 5 to 20 minutes are paid and count as hours worked, including for overtime. A bona fide meal break of 30 minutes or more, when you are fully relieved of duty, is usually unpaid.

Divide the minutes by 60. 15 minutes is 0.25, 30 minutes is 0.5 and 45 minutes is 0.75. So 7 hours 45 minutes is 7.75 hours.

Because an hour has 60 minutes, not 100. 30 minutes is half an hour, so 7:30 is 7.5 hours. Writing 7.3 underpays you 12 minutes.

Pay at 1.5 times your regular rate. At $20.00 an hour, time and a half is $30.00 an hour.

Under the US federal FLSA, non-exempt employees get at least time and a half for hours worked over 40 in a workweek. Some states and contracts add daily overtime.

Weekly overtime counts hours over a weekly limit, such as 40. Daily overtime counts hours over a daily limit, such as 8. Where both apply, hours already paid as daily overtime should not be counted again for the weekly limit.

The FLSA does not define full-time or part-time work; the Department of Labor says it is generally up to the employer. A 40-hour week is 2,080 hours over 52 weeks.

It is quarter-hour rounding: a punch within 7 minutes of a quarter hour rounds to it, and 8 minutes or more rounds to the next one. Federal rules allow rounding to 5, 6 or 15 minutes only if, over time, employees are fully paid for the time they work.

Under US federal rules (29 CFR 785.48), rounding to the nearest 5 minutes, tenth or quarter hour is accepted if it does not, over time, underpay employees. Always rounding down is not.

Write the shift on the day it started. On this site, an end time the same as or earlier than the start time is treated as the next day: 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM is 8 hours.

Biweekly is every two weeks, which is 26 pay periods in most years. Semi-monthly is twice a month, 24 pay periods a year. Overtime is still worked out per workweek in both cases.

Not under the FLSA. Each workweek stands alone, so a 45-hour week has 5 overtime hours even if the next week is 35 hours.

Not under federal rules. Pay for vacation, holidays and sick days is not pay for hours worked, so it does not count toward the 40. Your employer may count it by policy.

Not automatically under federal law. Those hours earn overtime only if they take you over 40 in the workweek, unless your employer or state pays more.

The US Department of Labor says employers should keep time cards for at least 2 years and payroll records for at least 3 years.

Only in your browser on this device (localStorage). There are no accounts and nothing is sent to a server. Clearing your browser data deletes it, so download a backup from the time card page.

Yes. Create up to 10 profiles, each with its own name, rate, currency, overtime rule, week start and days.

No. It estimates gross pay only. It does not calculate tax, withholding or take-home pay.