Overtime and break tracking that follows your state's rules
Pick your state, and Kloqk sets the overtime and break rules for you. Every break is paid or unpaid by those rules, and the timesheet says why.
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Your State's Law, or Your Own
Start from your state's overtime and break rules, set for every state, then change anything. If your rules give less than the law, the settings page says where.
Paid up to the Limit, Not Past It
Each rest break is paid up to the minutes your rule allows. A 14-minute break against a 10-minute rule pays 10, and the other 4 come off the day.
The Timesheet Explains Itself
"Break ran 14 min; 10 min is paid, 4 min unpaid." "2 breaks on a 6h day; 1 allowed until 8h." A break that was due and not taken marks the day too.
Unpaid Time Never Becomes Overtime
Unpaid lunch and break minutes come off worked hours before daily or weekly overtime is counted.
Daily, Weekly and Seventh-Day Overtime
Federal 40-hour weeks, California's daily and double time, Colorado's 12-hour day: whichever pays more, on whole workweeks even when the pay period cuts one.
Night Shifts in One Piece
A shift that crosses midnight counts on the day it began, so daily overtime sees it as the one shift it was.
Frequently asked questions
Does Kloqk calculate overtime by state?
Yes. Choose your state and Kloqk applies its overtime rule, including daily overtime and double time where the state has them. A location can follow its own state's law.
Are breaks paid or unpaid in Kloqk?
By your break rules. Each rest break is paid up to the minutes its rule allows and any extra minutes are unpaid. With no rule for that shift, a rest break of up to 20 minutes is paid, as federal law requires. A lunch of 30 minutes or more follows your rule; a shorter one is paid.
Will I see when someone takes a long break?
Yes. The day is marked on the timesheet and the detailed report with how long the break ran and how much of it was unpaid.
Is overtime and break tracking free?
Yes, for unlimited employees at one location.
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What overtime tracking software has to get right
Adding up hours is the easy part. The money is in the rules: which breaks are paid, which week an overnight shift belongs to, and whether a day of nine hours owes overtime in your state. Kloqk starts from your state's rules and lets you change them, and every number on the timesheet can be traced back to a punch and a rule.
Breaks: paid up to the limit, unpaid past it
Your break rules read as sentences: "Shifts of 6 hours or more get 2 × 10 min, paid." Each rest break is paid up to its rule's minutes, and only the extra is unpaid. Federal law makes a rest break of up to 20 minutes paid time, so with no rule for a shift, that is what applies. A lunch of 30 minutes or more follows your rule; a shorter one is paid. The meal and rest break laws by state page lists where states go further.
| What happened | What is paid | What the timesheet says |
|---|---|---|
| A 14-minute break, rule allows 10 | 10 minutes | Break ran 14 min; 10 min is paid, 4 min unpaid |
| Two breaks on a 6-hour shift, rule allows 1 | Both, up to 10 minutes each | 2 breaks on a 6h day; 1 allowed until 8h |
| A 30-minute lunch on an 8-hour shift | Unpaid, by your rule | Shown as 0.50 unpaid |
| No break on an 8-hour shift that was due two | Pay unchanged | The day is marked as short |
Overtime: daily, weekly, and on whole weeks
Federal overtime is past 40 hours in a workweek. California adds daily overtime past 8 hours and double time past 12; Colorado counts past 12 hours in a day; Alaska and Nevada have daily rules too. Kloqk applies whichever your location follows, works it out on whole workweeks even when a pay period cuts one in half, and takes unpaid break and lunch time off before counting. Check any week with the overtime calculator.
Night shifts, forgotten punches and missed breaks
A shift from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. is one shift on the day it began, so a daily overtime rule sees all of it. Read which day overnight shift hours count on for why that matters. A shift somebody forgot to clock out of can close itself at the scheduled end time and be marked for review. The detailed report and its spreadsheet show every break as paid or unpaid, so what you pay is what the records say.