How overtime works

Clockspot totals each employee's hours and pays anything past your thresholds at a higher rate. You set the rules in the Overtime section of 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) earn the multiplier. Your workweek start day on Settings decides where the week begins.
• Daily — hours over the threshold within a single day (e.g. over 8) earn the multiplier.
• 7th Day — hours worked on the seventh consecutive day of a workweek earn 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 pay at 1.5× and the hours past 12 pay at 2×.

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 paid two premiums.

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 Staff is Exempt is left out of overtime entirely.
• Rule changes apply going forward. Past entries keep the overtime they were calculated with.

Where it shows up

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