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Overtime Pay Calculator

The ordinary and hourly rate for each employee, then every day at the rate the Employment Act sets — 1.5 times beyond the normal hours, more on a rest day, more again on a public holiday — with the month totalled and the 104-hour limit checked.

Set up

The month, your working week and your state. The working week decides which days are rest days; the state decides which days are public holidays, from the same gazette table LTT CutiCal uses. Nothing here is uploaded.

Overtime is any work beyond the normal hours of a day (at most 8) — Employment Act 1955 s.60A. Work on a rest day (s.60) and on a public holiday (s.60D) has its own rates. The Act limits overtime to 104 hours in a month. A week has one rest day (s.60(1)); on a five-day week the other day off is an off day, which the Act does not price — only the hours beyond the normal hours are statutory overtime, and anything for the day itself comes from the contract.

Employees

Name, monthly wages (basic pay plus the fixed allowances that count as wages), and the normal hours in a working day. A daily-rated worker enters the daily rate instead.

Since 1 January 2023 the Act covers every employee, but the overtime, rest-day and public-holiday pay sections do not apply to wages above RM4,000 a month unless the employee does manual work, drives or maintains a vehicle, supervises manual workers or works on a vessel (First Schedule, paragraph 2). Tick specified for those. For others above RM4,000 the tool still works the figures out at the Act's rates, marked as a contract matter.

Hours worked
Pay

Every figure is worked from the unrounded ordinary rate and rounded to the sen once, at the end, so the column always adds up to the total. A worked example that rounds the ordinary rate to the sen first can differ by a sen: on RM4,000 a month the ordinary rate is RM153.846..., and half of it is RM76.92 here against RM76.93 if you halve the rounded RM153.85.

Save and load

The register is kept in this browser as you type. A saved file is the copy you keep with the payroll, or bring to another computer.

Save

Everything — setup, employees and every day recorded — as one file, named to the house pattern.

Load

Open a file saved earlier. It replaces what is in this browser.

Start again

Clears this browser's copy. Save first if you want to keep it.