Overtime Laws in Nevada
Nevada (NV) · Overtime laws · Last reviewed September 2026
Weekly overtime
1.5× after 40 hrs/week
Daily overtime
Yes, see below
Double-time
Not state-mandated
The Federal Baseline (FLSA)
Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, non-exempt employees in Nevada must be paid at least one and a half times their regular rate for every hour worked beyond 40 in a single workweek. A workweek is any fixed, repeating block of seven consecutive days, your business picks the start day, but once chosen it has to stay consistent.
Overtime is calculated per workweek, not per pay period. So even on a bi-weekly payroll, you still total each of the two workweeks separately when figuring out who crossed 40 hours.
Daily Overtime in Nevada
Nevada applies daily overtime after 8 hours for employees earning under one-and-a-half times the state minimum wage; higher earners follow the weekly 40-hour rule.
Because Nevada layers daily rules on top of the federal weekly rule, your time clock needs to evaluate each day and each week and pay whichever produces the higher amount.
Who Is Exempt from Overtime?
Overtime protections cover non-exempt employees. Workers correctly classified as exempt, typically salaried executive, administrative, and professional roles that meet both a salary threshold and a duties test, generally are not owed overtime. Misclassifying an employee as exempt is one of the most common and expensive wage-and-hour mistakes, so review the duties test, not just the job title.
Independent contractors are not employees and are not covered by overtime rules, but the test for contractor status is strict, and getting it wrong creates back-pay liability.
An Overtime Example Using Nevada Numbers
Take someone earning the Nevada minimum of $12.00 an hour who works 46 hours in a single workweek. The first 40 hours are paid at $12.00, which is $480.00. The remaining 6 hours are overtime at one and a half times the regular rate, or $18.00 an hour, which is $108.00. Gross pay for the week is $588.00.
The phrase doing the work there is "regular rate", and it is not always the same as the hourly wage on the offer letter. Non-discretionary bonuses, shift differentials and most commissions have to be folded in before the premium is calculated, which means an employee on $12.00 plus a $50 attendance bonus is owed overtime on a higher figure than 18.00.
Nevada also applies a daily overtime standard, so hours past the daily threshold earn the premium even in a week that never reaches 40. Someone working four 11-hour days has 44 hours and is owed daily overtime on top, which is the case employers most often miss.
The arithmetic is easy to get wrong by hand across a whole crew. The free overtime calculator linked below does it from a rate and a number of hours, and the time card calculator totals a full week including unpaid breaks.
Nevada Labor-Law Snapshot
In dollar terms, Nevada's minimum overtime rate works out to about $18.00/hour, time-and-a-half on the $12.00/hour (about $4.75 above the federal $7.25) minimum. Nevada adds daily overtime on top of the federal 40-hour week, and a final paycheck is generally due immediately (within 3 days) when someone is let go.
For Nevada employers these rules interact with timekeeping: accurate, audit-logged hours drive overtime, sick-leave accrual, final pay, and break records. Nevada requires meal breaks on longer shifts and requires paid rest breaks; a final paycheck is due by the next regular payday or within 7 days, whichever is sooner when an employee resigns. Confirm current Nevada figures with the state labor office before relying on any single number.
What Nevada Employers Should Keep on File
Federal law requires employers to keep payroll records for at least three years, and the records used to calculate pay, such as time cards and work schedules, for at least two. Several states require longer. The practical standard is simple: if a former employee filed a claim tomorrow, could you evidence every hour you paid and every hour you did not?
The records that matter are the daily start and end times, the total hours for each workweek, the regular rate and any premium, all additions and deductions, and the pay period the payment covers. Keeping the underlying punches matters more than keeping the summary, because a total nobody can trace back is not evidence.
Where the record is missing or unreliable, the employee's reasonable recollection is generally accepted, and the employer carries the burden of disproving it. That is the single strongest argument for an automatic time clock over a paper sheet reconstructed at the end of the week.
How Nevada Compares with the States Next Door
Nevada borders 5 states, and goes beyond the federal floor here. California adds overtime rules of its own; Arizona, Idaho, Oregon and Utah follow the federal 40-hour rule alone.
Minimum wage across the line: Arizona $15.15, California $16.90, Idaho $7.25, Oregon $15.55, Utah $7.25. Nevada is at $12.00.
If you employ people on both sides of the Nevada border, the stricter of the two states usually governs each worker, based on where the work is actually performed rather than where your business is registered.
Free calculators for this
Overtime Pay Calculator
Time-and-a-half and double-time from an hourly rate and the hours worked.
Time Card Calculator
Add up a week of clock-in and clock-out times, minus unpaid breaks, in decimal hours.
Work Hours Calculator
Hours worked between any two times, including shifts that run past midnight.
All of them run in your browser, with no signup. See all nine calculators.
Official Sources
More Nevada Guides
Overtime Laws in Other States
Nevada Overtime Laws: Frequently Asked Questions
Do you get overtime after 8 hours in Nevada?
Yes, Nevada has daily overtime, so hours past 8 in a single day can earn time-and-a-half even during a short week.
How is overtime pay calculated in Nevada?
Overtime is 1.5× the regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek, plus daily overtime for long days. Each workweek is totaled on its own, even on a bi-weekly payroll.
Who is exempt from overtime in Nevada?
Correctly classified salaried executive, administrative, and professional employees who meet the salary and duties tests are usually exempt. Job title alone doesn't make someone exempt.
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