How overtime works

Clockspot totals each employee's hours and classifies hours past your thresholds into overtime tiers. You set the rules in Overtime Settings; this page explains how they're applied so the numbers on your reports make sense.

The three rule types

• Weekly — hours over the threshold within one workweek (e.g. over 40) use the multiplier. Your Workweek start day in Work Schedule decides where the week begins.
• Daily — hours over the threshold within a single day (e.g. over 8) use the multiplier.
• 7th Day — hours worked on the seventh consecutive day of a workweek use the multiplier. A threshold of 0 applies it to all of that day's hours.

Each rule has a Threshold (hrs) and a Multiplier (1.5 for time-and-a-half, 2 for double time). You can have up to five.

Tiers and how rules combine

Rules of the same type stack into tiers. With a daily 1.5× over 8 and a 2× over 12, the hours between 8 and 12 land in the 1.5× tier and the hours past 12 land in the 2× tier.

Daily and weekly rules don't double-count: weekly overtime is figured on the hours that weren't already counted as daily overtime, so the same hour is never assigned to two overtime tiers.

Presets

A Preset — Federal, California, and several states — fills in a common set of rules as a starting point. Federal is simply weekly over 40 at 1.5×. Pick the closest preset and adjust, or build Custom rules.

Exemptions and changes

• An employee whose Exemption status on Employees is Exempt is left out of overtime entirely.
• Overtime reports use the current saved rules when they run. If you change rules and rerun an older report, the breakdown can change.

Where it shows up

Overtime appears, broken out per tier, on the Overtime and Payroll Summary reports.