Pennsylvania overtime calculator
Pennsylvania's Minimum Wage Act requires overtime after 40 hours a week, like federal law, but it counts more of your time as hours worked. Enter your hourly rate and the hours you worked each day of one workweek.
Pennsylvania overtime rules
- 1.5× your regular rate for every hour over 40 in a workweek (34 Pa. Code §231.41)
- No daily overtime. Hospitals can use an "8 and 80" system by agreement.
- Any size of employer. The Department of Labor and Industry: "The number of employees has no bearing on the payment of overtime."
- No comp time. Overtime hours "may not be offset by compensatory time off in any prior or subsequent workweek."
More of your time counts
Pennsylvania never adopted the federal Portal-to-Portal Act. In Heimbach v. Amazon (2021), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that time spent waiting for and going through a mandatory security screening is hours worked, and that there's no exception for small amounts of time. Under federal law, that screening time usually isn't paid. Time your employer requires you to be on its premises counts too.
Example
At $19 an hour, you work five 8-hour shifts and spend 15 minutes a day in a required security screening. In Pennsylvania that's 41.25 hours: 40 × $19 = $760 regular, plus 1.25 × $28.50 = $35.63 overtime, for $795.63. Without the screening time it would be $760.
Salaried, but not exempt
If you're paid a salary but owed overtime, your regular rate is your salary divided by 40 hours (§231.43(g)), and overtime hours are paid at 1.5× that. Pennsylvania doesn't allow the federal "fluctuating workweek" method that pays only an extra half for overtime on a salary (Chevalier v. General Nutrition Centers, 2019).
Minimum wage in Pennsylvania
$7.25 an hour as of November 2026, the same as the federal minimum. Tipped workers get a cash wage of $2.83 plus tips.
Questions
Is overtime paid after 8 hours a day in Pennsylvania?
No. Only hours over 40 in the workweek, unless your employer or union contract pays more.
Do holidays or weekends pay extra?
Not by law. Those hours count toward the 40 like any others; extra pay comes only from your employer's policy.
Is overtime tax-free in Pennsylvania?
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.