Pennsylvania Overtime Calculator and Time Tracking Rules
Overtime in Pennsylvania is time and a half after 40 hours in a week. Pennsylvania follows the federal minimum wage. Use the free calculator below, check the state's wage and hour rules, and see how Clox tracks the hours behind them.
State guides
If you run an hourly crew in Pennsylvania, two questions come up every payroll: how much do you owe once someone crosses into overtime, and are you following the state's rules. Pennsylvania uses the federal 40-hour rule, so any hour past 40 in a workweek is paid at 1.5 times the regular rate. $7. This page gives you a free Pennsylvania overtime calculator, a plain summary of the state's wage and hour rules, and a look at how Clox tracks the hours behind those numbers.
Free Pennsylvania overtime calculator
Enter the hours someone worked in a week and their pay rate to see the regular and overtime split. The math follows Pennsylvania rules: time and a half after 40 hours, with no daily overtime.
Pennsylvania overtime calculator
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Regular pay (40 hrs × $20.00)$800.00
Overtime pay (5 hrs × 1.5 × $20.00)$150.00
Gross pay this week$950.00
Overtime is 1.5 times the regular rate after 40 hours in a workweek. Pennsylvania follows the federal rule and has no daily overtime, so hours over 8 in a day do not trigger overtime on their own.
Pennsylvania minimum wage: $7.
Estimate only, for planning. Confirm current figures with the Pennsylvania labor department. This is not legal or payroll advice.
Pennsylvania wage and hour rules
Here is the short version of the rules an hourly Pennsylvania employer runs into. Each figure has a source below, and the rules change over time, so confirm anything you rely on with the state.
Rule
What it says
Minimum wage
$7.25/hr, Pennsylvania follows the federal minimum wage (unchanged since July 24, 2009); no state increase in effect for 2026 and none scheduled. Tipped cash wage $2.83/hr (with tip credit up to the $7.25 full minimum). No local (e.g., Philadelphia) or employer-size variant is in effect statewide.
Overtime
1.5x the regular rate for hours worked over 40 in a workweek. Confirmed, Pennsylvania follows the federal FLSA weekly-40 standard (and the PA Minimum Wage Act mirrors it).
Daily overtime
None. No daily overtime and no double-time; overtime is weekly only (over 40 hours in a workweek).
Meal break
No state meal-break requirement for adult employees. (Only minors under 18 are entitled to a 30-minute break after 5 consecutive hours.) If an employer voluntarily provides a break, federal FLSA rules apply: breaks under 20 minutes must be paid; a bona fide meal period of 30+ minutes may be unpaid if the worker is fully relieved of duties.
Rest break
No state rest-break requirement for adult employees. Under FLSA, any voluntary rest break under 20 minutes must be paid.
Final paycheck
Next regular payday. Under the PA Wage Payment and Collection Law (43 P.S. § 260.5), wages earned become due and payable no later than the next regular payday, whether the employee quits or is terminated (no distinction between the two).
Pennsylvania wage and hour rules for hourly workers, as researched for 2026.
Confirm before you rely on these
Figures current as of July 2026. Pennsylvania's minimum wage tracks the federal rate ($7.25/hr) and would only change if federal law or new PA legislation takes effect; a $15-by-2029 bill passed the PA House in 2025 but was not enacted, so it does not affect the 2026 rate. The PA DLI minimum-wage page confirms the $2.83 tipped rate and the 1.5x-after-40 overtime rule but did not print the standard $7.25 figure directly; the $7.25 standard is confirmed via the DOL/state-alignment sources. All figures corroborated across at least two sources including the state labor department. This is general information, not legal or payroll advice. Check the Pennsylvania labor department for the current rules, and talk to a professional for your situation.
A calculator is only as good as the hours you feed it. Clox is time tracking built for field and trade crews, so the hours behind these numbers are captured accurately in the first place, then the overtime is figured for you.
Your crew clocks in with one tap on their phone, and it works offline, so a dead zone on the job does not lose a punch.
Lock clock-in to a geofenced worksite so a punch has to happen on site. It is a strong deterrent, not a foolproof guarantee, because the location comes from the phone.
Overtime is calculated automatically on the Pennsylvania weekly-40 rule, so you are not doing this math by hand every Friday.
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