Kentucky overtime calculator

Kentucky pays overtime after 40 hours a week and has a rule few states have: overtime for the seventh day when you work every day of the workweek. Enter your hourly rate and the hours you worked each day of one workweek.

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Hours worked each day of one workweek (8.5 = 8 h 30 min)

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Regular 36 h × $18.00

$648.00

Overtime (1.5×) 6 h × $27.00

$162.00

Gross pay for the week 42 h worked

$810.00

Kentucky: you worked all seven days of the workweek and more than 40 hours, so the seventh day is at 1.5×. It counts toward the weekly overtime, not on top of it.

Day by day

Day	Hours	Regular	1.5×	2×
Mon	6	6	0	0
Tue	6	6	0	0
Wed	6	6	0	0
Thu	6	6	0	0
Fri	6	6	0	0
Sat	6	6	0	0
Sun	6	0	6	0

Kentucky overtime rules

• 1.5× for every hour over 40 in a workweek (KRS 337.285)
• 1.5× for the seventh day if you work all seven days of the workweek (KRS 337.050): "time and a half for the time worked on the seventh day."
• No daily overtime, no required premium for Saturdays, Sundays or holidays, and no averaging of hours over two or more weeks (803 KAR 1:061).

How the seventh-day rule works

• It's the employer's workweek. Seven days in a row that cross from one workweek into the next don't count. The calculator's seventh column is the last day of your workweek.
• It doesn't apply to a 40-hour week. The rule doesn't apply when you aren't permitted to work more than 40 hours that week.
• No double counting. Seventh-day premium pay counts toward your weekly overtime. You get whichever gives more overtime hours: the seventh day's hours or the hours over 40, not both.
• Exceptions include supervisors, stenographers, bookkeepers and technical assistants of licensed professionals, small telephone exchanges, workers under the federal Railway Labor Act, and some boat and common carrier workers.

Examples

Seven 6-hour days at $18 an hour are 42 hours. Only 2 hours are over 40, but the seventh day's 6 hours are paid at time and a half: 36 × $18 = $648 plus 6 × $27 = $162, for $810. Under the federal rule alone, the same week pays $774.

Six 7-hour days and 5 hours on the seventh are 47 hours. The 7 hours over 40 are more than the 5 seventh-day hours, so 7 hours are overtime and the week pays the same as under federal law: $909.

Who the state weekly rule covers

Kentucky's own 40-hour rule leaves out employees of retail stores, restaurants, hotels and motels, and agricultural workers. Most of them still get overtime after 40 under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. Kentucky's minimum wage is the federal $7.25 an hour.

Questions

I worked Monday through Sunday but only 35 hours. Do I get seventh-day overtime?

No. With 40 hours or less in the week, the seventh-day rule doesn't apply.

Is Sunday always the seventh day?

No. It's the last day of the workweek your employer has set. If your workweek runs Wednesday to Tuesday, the seventh day is Tuesday.

Is overtime tax-free in Kentucky?

For federal income tax, from 2025 through 2028 you can deduct the extra half of time and a half, up to $12,500 a year ($25,000 on a joint return). Overtime is still taxed and withheld on your paycheck, and Social Security and Medicare still apply; the deduction comes off when you file. State income tax rules are separate. Estimate it with the No Tax on Overtime calculator.

Rules as of November 2026. An estimate for one workweek, not legal advice.