Free time card and payroll calculators

Nine calculators for the arithmetic that sits between a punch clock and a paycheck. Every one runs entirely in your browser: there is no account, nothing is saved, and nothing you type is sent to us or to anyone else. Use them for a single shift, a full week, or to check a number before you approve payroll.

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Add up hours

Turn clock-in and clock-out times into the decimal hours payroll actually accepts.

Work out pay

Convert hours and rates into gross pay, including overtime premiums.

Plan ahead

Answer the scheduling and accrual questions before the pay period closes.

Why hours and pay so rarely agree

Minutes are not decimals

Payroll wants 8.25 hours. The time card says 8 hours 15 minutes. Those are the same number written two ways, and treating 8:15 as 8.15 quietly underpays every shift that ends on a quarter hour. Divide the minutes by 60, never move the decimal point.

Overtime is weekly, not daily

Federal overtime is owed on hours past 40 in a fixed, recurring workweek, so a bi-weekly payroll still totals each of its two weeks separately. A handful of states add a daily premium on top, which is where most miscalculations start.

Unpaid breaks have to come out

A genuine, uninterrupted meal break of 30 minutes or more is generally unpaid. Short rest breaks are not: under federal rules, breaks of roughly 20 minutes or less count as hours worked and get paid, whether or not anyone clocked out for them.

Overnight shifts cross a date

A shift from 10pm to 6am is eight hours, but subtracting the clock times gives you minus sixteen. Every calculator here handles the rollover, which is the single most common reason a manual time card total comes out wrong.

The rules themselves vary by state. See overtime laws by state, meal and rest break rules, and when rounding punch times is allowed.

Stop doing this arithmetic by hand

These calculators exist because the maths is fiddly and easy to get wrong. A time clock does it continuously and keeps the record: employees punch in on a tablet or their phone, breaks and overtime are calculated as the week runs, and the total exports straight to payroll. The Kloqk time clock is free for unlimited employees, with no per-seat fee.

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