Canada Overtime Pay Calculator

This calculator asks for the hours you worked on each day of one week and works out which of them are overtime. That matters because in seven of Canada’s thirteen jurisdictions a long single day earns overtime even in a week that never reaches the weekly threshold.

What the overtime pay calculator does

Enter your hourly rate, choose your province or territory, and enter your hours Monday through Sunday. The tool applies the thresholds for your workplace and returns the overtime hours, any double-time hours, the pay for each band and the weekly gross. It also shows the statutory minimum overtime rate beside the rate on your own wage, because in two provinces they differ. Deciding which hours count is where people go wrong, and it is what the law specifies, so the tool does it for you.

Daily and weekly thresholds

Every jurisdiction has a weekly threshold: 44 hours in Ontario, Alberta, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, 48 in Nova Scotia and 40 elsewhere.

Seven also have a daily threshold of eight hours: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan and Yukon. Ontario’s guide states that employees do not earn overtime on a daily basis, and New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec are also weekly only.

So a Saskatchewan employee who works twelve, twelve and eight hours and then stops has 32 hours in the week, eight of them overtime. A weekly-only estimate would say none.

Saskatchewan’s four-day week

Saskatchewan’s daily threshold moves with the shape of the week. Its guidance says a regular week has 40 hours, which the employer may schedule as five eight-hour days or four ten-hour days, and someone scheduled ten hours a day over four days earns overtime after ten hours in a day. This is an ordinary scheduling choice, common in trades, health care and public works, not a special modified arrangement.

Four ten-hour days at $25 an hour is a 40-hour week. On the four-day schedule none of it is overtime and the week grosses $1,000. Charged against the eight-hour threshold, eight hours would become overtime, 32 regular hours plus eight at $37.50, or $1,100: $100 a week claimed for hours the Act does not treat as overtime.

The calculator therefore asks which schedule you work. Outside Saskatchewan the answer changes nothing. The weekly 40 still applies either way: four twelve-hour days is 48 hours, eight of them overtime.

The tool does not model one related rule: a Saskatchewan week with a public holiday has 32 standard hours instead of 40, and the Northwest Territories and Nunavut also cut their weekly standard to 32 in a holiday week.

No pyramiding: the greater of the two

Where both thresholds exist they do not stack. Alberta’s 8/44 rule counts all hours over eight in a day or 44 in a week, whichever is greater. Manitoba’s published examples work the same way: ten, six, ten, six and ten hours is 42 hours, and the answer is six overtime hours, not the eight you get by adding the daily and weekly figures. British Columbia counts only the first eight hours of each day toward its weekly 40, and Saskatchewan pays daily overtime first and then weekly overtime on the remaining hours; both come to the same result. The calculator takes the greater figure.

British Columbia’s second tier

British Columbia’s Employment Standards Act pays one and a half times the regular wage for time over eight hours in a day and double the regular wage for time over twelve. Double time is settled first, so those hours are not also paid at time and a half or counted toward the weekly 40.

At $30 an hour, a fourteen-hour Monday followed by four eight-hour days is 46 hours: 40 at the regular rate, four at $45 and two at $60, $1,500 gross.

The statutory floor is not always your own wage

In eleven jurisdictions the statutory overtime rate is one and a half times the employee’s own wage. New Brunswick’s Employment Standards Act instead sets overtime at no less than one and a half times the minimum wage, and Newfoundland and Labrador’s Labour Standards Regulations have done the same since April 2024. In both provinces the floor is a flat dollar figure that does not move with your pay.

For someone earning $30 an hour in New Brunswick, the floor is $23.85 an hour, below their ordinary rate. Most employers pay better, and many contracts and collective agreements promise time and a half on the employee’s own rate, but the floor is what an employment standards complaint can recover. The tool shows both figures.

A worked example

At $30 an hour in New Brunswick you work eight hours Monday through Saturday and four on Sunday, 52 hours. With no daily threshold, the weekly threshold of 44 leaves eight overtime hours.

At your own rate those hours are worth $45 each, so the week grosses $1,680. At the $23.85 statutory floor they are worth $190.80, and the week grosses $1,510.80. The $169.20 gap is the difference between what your contract promises and what the Act guarantees, in one week.

Federally regulated workers

Workers in federally regulated sectors, such as banking, telecommunications and interprovincial transport, get their overtime rules from the Canada Labour Code. The federal standard is eight hours a day and 40 a week, with time and a half beyond either, administered by the Labour Program at Employment and Social Development Canada. If you work in one of those industries, the provincial thresholds here do not apply to you.

Common mistakes

• Treating a short week as overtime-free. In the seven daily-threshold jurisdictions it may not be.
• Adding daily and weekly overtime together. No jurisdiction pays both for the same hours.
• Assuming salaried staff never earn overtime. Many salaried, non-managerial employees are entitled to it, starting from the hourly equivalent of the salary. Managers and supervisors doing genuinely managerial work generally are not.
• Forgetting averaging agreements. Most jurisdictions let employer and employee average hours over two to four weeks for overtime purposes, which changes the arithmetic. This tool assumes no averaging agreement.

Assumptions and limits

The calculator models the general rule for each jurisdiction, including Saskatchewan’s four-day, ten-hour week. It does not model averaging agreements, banked time, industry-specific thresholds and exemptions, the shorter holiday week in Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, collective agreement terms above the statutory floor, or the Canada Labour Code. It treats every hour you enter as hours of work and does not calculate tax; your deposit will be lower after income tax, CPP and EI.

Thresholds and minimum wages change. The figures behind this tool are parameters taken from each jurisdiction’s Act, regulation or ministry page, and the sources are listed below the calculator.

This is general information only and not financial advice.

About This Tool: Overtime Pay Calculator Canada

Overtime pay calculator Canada: use this tool to get an instant, accurate estimate. The figures follow official guidance and every rate and threshold is kept up to date for 2026. Adjust the inputs above to match your situation, or browse all our calculators to plan your next step.