Nurse Overtime Pay Calculator
A user-rule-driven pay estimate for regular, 1.5×, and 2× hours. NumPad calculates pay from the hours and rates you enter. It does not determine whether particular hours legally qualify for overtime.
Employer policies, collective bargaining agreements, exemptions, state law, federal law, and healthcare-specific arrangements may affect actual pay. This is an estimate, not an amount legally owed or guaranteed pay.
Step 1 — Check your overtime rules
Select a state to view official state and federal resources. Selecting a state never changes the hours below.
Use these official resources to determine which hours qualify as overtime, then enter those hours below.
Step 2 — Enter your hours
User-provided inputs. NumPad does not reclassify hours based on your state or schedule.
Step 3 — Add pay differentials
Enter dollar-per-hour adders and the hours to which each applies. Shift and weekend hours may overlap if both differentials apply to the same hours.
Step 4 — View estimated gross pay
Calculated results from your inputs.
Regular pay
$40.00 × 40 regular hrs
$1,600.00
1.5× overtime pay
$40.00 × 1.5 × 8 hrs
$480.00
2× overtime pay
$40.00 × 2 × 0 hrs
$0.00
Differential pay
Shift $0.00 + weekend $0.00
$0.00
Estimated gross pay
$2,080.00
48 total classified hours. Taxes, deductions, reimbursements, and compensation not entered are excluded.
Methodology and formulas
Regular pay = base hourly rate × regular hours.
Quick 1.5× overtime pay = base hourly rate × 1.5 × user-entered 1.5× hours.
Advanced 1.5× overtime pay = base straight-time pay for entered overtime hours + 0.5 × estimated regular rate × those hours.
2× overtime pay = base hourly rate × 2 × user-entered 2× hours. NumPad does not decide when double time applies.
Differential pay = shift differential × shift hours + weekend differential × weekend hours.
Estimated regular rate = (base rate × all entered hours + entered differentials + entered includable compensation) ÷ all entered hours.
Estimated gross pay = regular pay + 1.5× overtime pay + 2× overtime pay + differential pay + other entered compensation.
Base hourly rate is the stated hourly wage. Differentials and other compensation are additional payments. The FLSA regular rate is a legal calculation that may include or exclude compensation based on facts not captured here. Review the U.S. Department of Labor regular-rate guidance →
Healthcare 8-and-80 informational note
Qualifying hospitals and residential care establishments may use the federal 8-and-80 system under a prior agreement or understanding with affected employees. It can require overtime for hours over 8 in a day and 80 in a fixed 14-day work period. It does not automatically apply to all nurses, and NumPad does not apply it automatically. Verify whether your employer and work-period arrangement qualify.
U.S. Department of Labor Fact Sheet #54 — Healthcare overtime →Official reference directory methodology
The static directory contains all 50 states plus Washington, DC. Links point only to government labor/workforce agencies or official government wage-and-hour pages. A “separate standard” flag is used only where a general state overtime provision could be stated confidently; otherwise the summary uses a federal-reference fallback. Short summaries are informational, deliberately omit changing dollar thresholds, and are not legal advice. Every state panel also includes the federal FLSA source. Last verified: August 27, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. NumPad calculates pay from the hours and rates you enter. Use the linked state and federal government resources, your employer policy, applicable collective bargaining agreement, and qualified advice when needed to classify the hours first.