About the Overtime Pay Calculator by Province
Overtime rules in Canada are set provincially (or federally, for federally regulated industries), and they genuinely differ: Ontario and Quebec only look at weekly hours, while British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the territories also apply a daily threshold. This calculator applies your selected province's actual rule.
How it works
- Weekly overtime hours = hours worked beyond your province's weekly threshold (40, 44 or 48 depending on province).
- If your province also has a daily threshold (BC, AB, SK, MB, YT, NT, NU), overtime hours also trigger beyond 8 hours in your longest single day.
- Where both apply, the greater of the daily or weekly excess is used as overtime hours (not both added together) — this matches how these provinces actually calculate it.
- British Columbia also pays double time for hours beyond 12 in a single day.
Assumptions and behaviour
- Uses each province's 2026 weekly (and daily, where applicable) overtime threshold at the standard 1.5x rate.
- Assumes a non-exempt, hourly-paid employee with no averaging agreement in place (some provinces allow employers and employees to agree to average hours over multiple weeks, which changes the calculation).
- The 'longest single day' field is only used for provinces with a daily rule — it's ignored for Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, Newfoundland and federally regulated employees.
Limitations
- Doesn't model averaging agreements, which some provinces permit and which change the threshold calculation.
- Doesn't account for collective agreements or industry-specific exemptions (many trades, managers and certain professions are excluded from overtime rules entirely).
- Estimates only — not legal advice.
Privacy
The calculation runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded or stored.
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