Overtime Pay Calculator

Overtime is your rate times a multiplier

Overtime pay takes your normal hourly rate and applies a higher multiplier to the extra hours — commonly 1.5 (time and a half) or 2 (double time). This calculator splits regular and overtime hours, applies the multiplier to the overtime portion, and sums the total.

For freelancers, a rush or out-of-hours multiplier is a fair way to price work that disrupts your schedule — agree it in writing before you start.

Set the rush rate before the rush

Clients accept premium rates far more readily when they were stated up front. Put your overtime or rush multiplier in your terms so the higher number is expected, not a surprise on the invoice.

For a freelancer, rush work is priced, not accrued

Overtime multipliers are an employment concept and they do not automatically transfer to freelance work. Nobody owes you time-and-a-half because a deadline moved. What you can do is price urgency openly: a stated rush rate for work that has to displace something else, agreed before you start rather than added to the invoice afterwards.

Twenty-five to fifty percent above your standard rate is a common uplift for genuinely disruptive timelines — evenings, weekends, or dropping committed work to take something on. Naming it does two useful things at once: it compensates you for the disruption, and it gives the client a real choice between paying for speed and moving the deadline. Most of the time they move the deadline, which was the better outcome anyway.