Rhode Island Overtime Calculator and Time Tracking Rules
Overtime in Rhode Island is time and a half after 40 hours in a week. $16. 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 Rhode Island, two questions come up every payroll: how much do you owe once someone crosses into overtime, and are you following the state's rules. Rhode Island uses the federal 40-hour rule, so any hour past 40 in a workweek is paid at 1.5 times the regular rate. $16. This page gives you a free Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island overtime calculator
Enter the hours someone worked in a week and their pay rate to see the regular and overtime split. The math follows Rhode Island rules: time and a half after 40 hours, with no daily overtime.
Rhode Island 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. Rhode Island follows the federal rule and has no daily overtime, so hours over 8 in a day do not trigger overtime on their own.
Rhode Island minimum wage: $16.
Estimate only, for planning. Confirm current figures with the Rhode Island labor department. This is not legal or payroll advice.
Rhode Island wage and hour rules
Here is the short version of the rules an hourly Rhode Island 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
$16.00/hr (effective Jan 1, 2026), up from $15.00 in 2025. Enforced by the RI Dept. of Labor & Training. No local/city minimum wage. Tipped cash wage is $3.89/hr (tip credit; tips must bring the worker to $16.00). Full-time students working 24 hrs/week or less may be paid 75% ($12.00/hr). Scheduled to rise to $17.00/hr on Jan 1, 2027.
Overtime
1.5x the regular rate for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek (RIGL 28-12-4.1; mirrors the federal FLSA weekly-40 rule). Note: RI also separately requires 1.5x premium pay for most non-exempt retail/commercial work performed on Sundays and statutory holidays, independent of the 40-hour threshold.
Daily overtime
None. Rhode Island has no daily overtime and no double-time. Overtime is calculated weekly only (over 40 hours in a workweek); working more than 8 hours in a day does not trigger overtime unless weekly hours exceed 40.
Meal break
Yes. Under RIGL 28-3-14, employers must give a 20-minute meal period during a shift of 6 or more hours, and a 30-minute meal period during a shift of 8 or more hours. May be unpaid. Exempts employers with fewer than 3 employees on the shift at one site, and licensed healthcare facilities. Applies to construction/field employees like other adult workers.
Rest break
No state rest-break requirement for adults. Rhode Island does not mandate paid rest/coffee breaks; they are at the employer's discretion. (Under federal FLSA, if short breaks of 5-20 minutes are provided, they must be paid.)
Final paycheck
Next regular payday, whether the employee is fired or quits (RIGL 28-14-4). Accrued/unused vacation is payable with the final wages if the employee had at least 1 year of service and it is owed under policy/agreement. Exception: if separation results from the employer liquidating, merging, selling, or moving the business out of state, all wages are due within 24 hours of separation.
Rhode Island wage and hour rules for hourly workers, as researched for 2026.
Confirm before you rely on these
Minimum wage is $16.00/hr effective Jan 1, 2026 (confirmed by RI DLT and an independent 2026 legal source); it is already legislated to rise to $17.00/hr on Jan 1, 2027. Tipped cash wage ($3.89) and student rate (75% = $12.00) are secondary and may warrant re-verification against the current DLT poster before publishing. The RI DLT website (dlt.ri.gov) and Justia/rilegislature statute pages blocked automated fetching (HTTP 403), so statute text was confirmed via DLT/legal-source search snippets and the DLT Wage & Hour PDF rather than a direct full-text pull; all figures were cross-checked across at least two sources. Rhode Island's Sunday/holiday premium-pay rule is a notable state-specific quirk beyond standard weekly overtime. This is general information, not legal or payroll advice. Check the Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island weekly-40 rule, so you are not doing this math by hand every Friday.
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