Hours Calculator

Common questions

How do I convert minutes to decimal hours?

Divide the minutes by 60. Forty five minutes is 45 divided by 60, which is 0.75, so 7:45 is 7.75 decimal hours. Six minutes is a tenth of an hour, which is why payroll often rounds to six minute steps. This tool shows both forms at once: hours and minutes for a timesheet, decimal for a payroll sheet. The decimal is shown to two places, so 8:20 reads as 8.33 while the minutes behind it stay whole and exact.

How do I calculate hours for a shift that runs past midnight?

An out time earlier than the in time means the shift finished the next day, so it is counted forward rather than backwards. A shift from 22:00 to 06:00 is 8:00, not minus sixteen hours, and the row says the out time is the next day so you can see the tool noticed. That is where most time card pages go wrong, and it is why the note is on the row rather than buried in a help page.

How are unpaid breaks taken off?

Put the break in the Break column on the row it belongs to. A plain number is minutes, so 30 is half an hour, and 0:45 or 45m work too. The break comes off that shift before any rounding is applied, so a 9:00 to 17:30 day with a 30 minute break is 8:00 exactly. A break longer than the shift is refused with the longest one that fits, rather than quietly producing a negative day.

How does time card rounding work?

Pick exact, 5, 6 or 15 minutes. Each shift is rounded on its own and the total is the sum of the rounded shifts, which is what payroll does and is not the same number as rounding the total once at the end: three eight minute shifts at the nearest quarter hour come to 45 minutes, where rounding the 24 minute total would give 30. An exact half rounds up, and every rounded row shows the figure it was rounded from so nothing moves invisibly.

How is overtime counted here?

As hours over a threshold you set, and nothing more. The weekly threshold starts at 40 hours and you can change or clear it, and a daily threshold of 8 hours can be switched on as well. With both running, the daily count goes first and the weekly count runs only on the hours the daily count did not already take, so no hour is ever counted twice. Overtime rules differ by country, state and contract, so the threshold is yours to set.

Can it just add a list of times together?

Yes. Switch the mode to Add durations and paste them in, one per line or separated by commas or a plus sign: 1:30 + 2:45 comes to 4:15. A plain number is hours, so 1.5 is an hour and a half, while 90m is ninety minutes. A minus takes an entry back off the total, which is how an unpaid break comes out of a list you already typed.

Are my hours saved anywhere?

They stay in this browser and go nowhere else. The card, the rounding rule and the thresholds are kept on this device so the page is still filled in when you come back, and nothing is uploaded, because the whole tool runs in the browser and there is no account to make.