Time Card Calculator
Use this calculator to quickly determine total hours worked, including regular and overtime hours, and calculate gross pay for a single shift or workday. Simply enter your start time, end time, break duration, hourly rate, and any applicable overtime rules.
Understanding Your Time Card
A time card calculator is an essential tool for both employees and employers to accurately track work hours and calculate wages. It helps ensure that all time worked, including regular and overtime hours, is accounted for correctly, leading to precise payroll processing.
How It Works
This calculator simplifies the process of converting your clock-in and clock-out times into total work hours. It takes into account any breaks you've taken and applies your hourly rate to determine your gross pay. Furthermore, it automatically identifies and calculates overtime hours based on a daily threshold you set, applying the specified overtime multiplier.
Key Components:
- Start Time & End Time: These are your clock-in and clock-out times for a given shift. It's crucial to enter these accurately, including AM/PM designation.
- Break Duration: This is the total time you spent on unpaid breaks during your shift. This duration is subtracted from your total time at work to determine your actual working hours.
- Hourly Rate: Your standard pay rate per hour.
- Daily Overtime Threshold: The number of hours worked in a single day after which overtime pay applies. Common thresholds are 8 hours.
- Overtime Multiplier: The factor by which your hourly rate is increased for overtime hours. For example, "time and a half" is a 1.5 multiplier, while "double time" is a 2.0 multiplier.
Why Use a Time Card Calculator?
- Accuracy: Eliminates manual calculation errors, ensuring correct pay.
- Transparency: Provides a clear breakdown of regular hours, overtime hours, and corresponding pay.
- Efficiency: Saves time for both employees tracking their hours and employers processing payroll.
- Compliance: Helps ensure adherence to labor laws regarding work hours and overtime pay.
Example Calculation:
Let's say an employee works from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, takes a 60-minute break, has an hourly rate of $20.00, a daily overtime threshold of 8 hours, and an overtime multiplier of 1.5.
- Total Time at Work: 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM is 10 hours.
- Net Work Hours: 10 hours – 1 hour (60 min break) = 9 hours.
- Regular Hours: The threshold is 8 hours, so 8 hours are regular.
- Overtime Hours: 9 total hours – 8 regular hours = 1 hour of overtime.
- Regular Pay: 8 hours * $20.00/hour = $160.00.
- Overtime Pay: 1 hour * $20.00/hour * 1.5 = $30.00.
- Gross Pay: $160.00 + $30.00 = $190.00.
Using this calculator, you can quickly get these results without manual calculations.
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function parseTime(timeString) {
var parts = timeString.match(/(\d+):(\d+)\s*(AM|PM)?/i);
if (!parts) {
return NaN; // Invalid format
}
var hours = parseInt(parts[1], 10);
var minutes = parseInt(parts[2], 10);
var ampm = parts[3] ? parts[3].toUpperCase() : ";
if (isNaN(hours) || isNaN(minutes) || hours < 0 || minutes 59) {
return NaN; // Invalid time values
}
if (ampm === 'PM' && hours 23) { // Handle cases like 13 AM (invalid) or 25:00 (invalid)
return NaN;
}
return hours * 60 + minutes;
}
function calculateTimeCard() {
var startTimeStr = document.getElementById('startTime').value;
var endTimeStr = document.getElementById('endTime').value;
var breakMinutesInput = parseFloat(document.getElementById('breakMinutes').value);
var hourlyRate = parseFloat(document.getElementById('hourlyRate').value);
var overtimeThresholdHours = parseFloat(document.getElementById('overtimeThreshold').value);
var overtimeMultiplier = parseFloat(document.getElementById('overtimeMultiplier').value);
var resultDiv = document.getElementById('timeCardResult');
resultDiv.innerHTML = "; // Clear previous results
// Input validation
if (!startTimeStr || !endTimeStr) {
resultDiv.innerHTML = 'Please enter both Start Time and End Time.';
return;
}
if (isNaN(breakMinutesInput) || breakMinutesInput < 0) {
resultDiv.innerHTML = 'Please enter a valid Break Duration (0 or greater).';
return;
}
if (isNaN(hourlyRate) || hourlyRate <= 0) {
resultDiv.innerHTML = 'Please enter a valid Hourly Rate (greater than 0).';
return;
}
if (isNaN(overtimeThresholdHours) || overtimeThresholdHours < 0) {
resultDiv.innerHTML = 'Please enter a valid Overtime Threshold (0 or greater).';
return;
}
if (isNaN(overtimeMultiplier) || overtimeMultiplier < 1) {
resultDiv.innerHTML = 'Please enter a valid Overtime Multiplier (1 or greater).';
return;
}
var startMinutes = parseTime(startTimeStr);
var endMinutes = parseTime(endTimeStr);
if (isNaN(startMinutes) || isNaN(endMinutes)) {
resultDiv.innerHTML = 'Please enter Start and End Times in a valid HH:MM AM/PM format (e.g., 9:00 AM, 5:30 PM).';
return;
}
// Handle overnight shifts (end time is numerically smaller than start time)
if (endMinutes < startMinutes) {
endMinutes += (24 * 60); // Add 24 hours in minutes
}
var grossDurationMinutes = endMinutes – startMinutes;
var netDurationMinutes = grossDurationMinutes – breakMinutesInput;
if (netDurationMinutes < 0) {
netDurationMinutes = 0; // Cannot work negative hours due to breaks
resultDiv.innerHTML += 'Warning: Break duration exceeds total time at work. Net work hours set to 0.';
}
var netHours = netDurationMinutes / 60;
var regularHours = Math.min(netHours, overtimeThresholdHours);
var overtimeHours = Math.max(0, netHours – overtimeThresholdHours);
var regularPay = regularHours * hourlyRate;
var overtimePay = overtimeHours * hourlyRate * overtimeMultiplier;
var grossPay = regularPay + overtimePay;
resultDiv.innerHTML += '
Total Net Hours Worked: ' + netHours.toFixed(2) + ' hours';
resultDiv.innerHTML += '
Regular Hours: ' + regularHours.toFixed(2) + ' hours';
resultDiv.innerHTML += '
Overtime Hours: ' + overtimeHours.toFixed(2) + ' hours';
resultDiv.innerHTML += '
Regular Pay: $' + regularPay.toFixed(2) + ";
resultDiv.innerHTML += '
Overtime Pay: $' + overtimePay.toFixed(2) + ";
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Gross Pay: $' + grossPay.toFixed(2) + ";
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