About Overtime Calc by State

Overtime Calc by State covers all 50 states and the District of Columbia — 51 jurisdictions — each with its own page, its own preset calculator and its own sources. The calculator takes a real workweek, day by day, because that is how overtime law actually works: a 12-hour Tuesday is ordinary time in Texas, daily overtime in California and Alaska, and still ordinary time in Colorado, where the daily trigger is 12 hours.

Since 2025 there is a second question hourly workers ask: how much of my overtime can I deduct? Only the half-time premium required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act qualifies, up to $12,500 a year, and only some states let the deduction lower state tax. We built the deduction into the same engine so one week of hours flows straight into an annual estimate.

The site is written and maintained by the Overtime Calc by State Editorial Team. It is run by an independent publisher that operates a small number of free calculator websites; it is not a law firm, an accounting firm, a payroll company or a government agency, and it is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Labor, the IRS or any state agency. We do not name individual authors and we do not claim credentials we do not have — the work is checked against the primary documents linked on every page, and those documents are the authority, not us.

There are no ads, no affiliate links and no lead forms. Nothing on the site is sold, and no outside scripts load on any page.

Every figure traces to one of the 144 documents on our sources page: statutes, state labor-department notices, revenue-department instructions and IRS guidance, each read on the date shown. Every page carries the date its rules were last verified. When a rule window ends — a minimum wage that resets on January 1, an unpublished tax table — the calculator stops using the old figure and asks you for the official one instead of quietly guessing.

The tool estimates; it does not decide your pay or your taxes. Your employer’s workweek definition, your exemption status, union contracts and your full tax picture all matter. If something here disagrees with an official source, the official source wins — and we want to hear about it through the corrections form.