Work Week Calculator

Add up daily hours for a week and compare the total to a weekly target. Useful for tracking progress against a 40 hour week, planning for overtime, or balancing a schedule against a part-time target like 20 or 30 hours.

Use it when you are tracking progress against a 40 hour week, when you are planning for overtime, when you are balancing a schedule with a part-time target, or when you want to know mid-week whether you can leave early on Friday and still hit your target. It is also helpful for managers reviewing a team member's expected total before approving an extra shift.

The calculator sums each day in raw hours, converts to a single weekly total, and compares it to the weekly target you enter. The variance is the difference between actual hours and the target, expressed as a positive number when you are over and a negative number when you are under.

The total shows your week so far. The variance shows how many hours you are short or over the target. Use the variance to decide whether to add or trim a shift before the week closes, and use the total as a sanity check against the weekly hours line on a stub.

Five days of 7 hours 45 minutes each is 38 hours 45 minutes (38.75 hours), which is 1 hour 15 minutes short of a 40 hour target. Five 8 hour days plus a 4 hour Saturday is 44 hours, or 4 hours over the target. A part-time week of 4, 5, 4, 0, 5, 0, 0 totals 18 hours against a 20 hour target.

This is a planning tool. Real overtime depends on your employer policy and state rules. A weekly target is not the same as a federal overtime threshold, and being a few hours over a self-imposed target does not automatically mean you earned overtime pay. Use the Overtime Calculator if you need pay impact, not just hour totals.