Biweekly time card calculator
Enter 14 days of clock-in, clock-out, and unpaid break times. Each week's overtime is calculated separately before the pay-period totals are combined.
Enter two weeks of clock times and unpaid breaks
The threshold is applied to Week 1 and Week 2 separately. Gross pay excludes taxes, deductions, paid leave, bonuses, and any daily or double-time rules.
Week 1: Monday through Sunday
Week 2: Monday through Sunday
How the biweekly time card is calculated
For each enabled day, worked minutes equal the elapsed time from clock-in to clock-out minus the unpaid break. An end time earlier than the start is treated as the following day. The seven daily results are added for Week 1, and the same calculation is repeated independently for Week 2.
For each week, regular hours are the smaller of worked hours and the threshold you enter. Overtime hours are the greater of worked hours minus that threshold or zero. Weekly gross pay equals regular hours × hourly rate plus overtime hours × hourly rate × overtime multiplier. The pay-period result is the sum of both weekly results.
- Fourteen daily rows are grouped into two seven-day weeks
- Unpaid breaks are entered in whole minutes
- Weekly results are combined only after overtime is calculated
Example: 45 hours in Week 1 and 38 hours in Week 2
Suppose the hourly rate is $20, overtime begins after 40 hours per week, and the multiplier is 1.5. Week 1 has 40 regular hours worth $800 and 5 overtime hours worth $150, for $950. Week 2 has 38 regular hours worth $760 and no overtime.
The 14-day pay period therefore contains 83 hours, including 5 overtime hours, with estimated gross pay of $1,710. Averaging the period to 41.5 hours per week would not be a valid substitute: the calculator preserves the actual distribution of hours between the two weeks.
Biweekly is not the same as semimonthly
A biweekly period is exactly two consecutive seven-day weeks. A semimonthly period usually runs from the 1st through the 15th and from the 16th through the end of the month, so its length and weekday count vary. Use this calculator only when the record genuinely covers 14 days.
Confirm where each workweek starts before entering punches. If an employer's week runs Sunday through Saturday, map those seven days together even though the labels in this tool are shown Monday through Sunday. Moving a shift into the wrong week can change the overtime result.
Review, export, and keep the source records
Compare every row with the original time card before copying, printing, or downloading the CSV. The export includes each day's clock times, unpaid break, worked duration, decimal hours, both weekly pay summaries, and the combined pay-period result.
The calculator works in the browser and does not create an employee record or approval trail. Keep the exported result with dated punches, edits, approvals, employee details, and any payroll documentation required by your organization.
Limits of this overtime and pay estimate
This tool applies one hourly rate, one weekly threshold, and one overtime multiplier. It does not allocate daily overtime, double time, multiple pay rates, shift differentials, bonuses, commissions, paid leave, taxes, benefits, or deductions. Clock-only entries also cannot model daylight-saving transitions or a shift lasting 24 hours or longer.
Overtime eligibility, workweek definitions, rounding, break rules, and the regular rate can depend on current law, contracts, location, and worker status. Use the applicable policy or an authoritative payroll source to decide which settings and hours belong in the calculation.