Calculate Daily and Weekly Work Hours After Breaks
Enter the start and finish time, unpaid break and days worked. The calculator handles a shift ending after midnight and converts the result into weekly and average monthly paid hours.
Turn clock time into paid capacity
40.0 hoursPaid hours per week
- Paid hours per day
- 8.0 hours
- Average paid hours per month
- 173.3 hours
- Weekly unpaid break time
- 5.0 hours
Elapsed shift minutes minus unpaid break, multiplied by workdays.
Keep normal days, rest days and public holidays separated when pay rates differ.
Turn clock times into a reusable paid-hours total
Calculate daily and weekly working hours from start time, finish time, unpaid break and workdays, including overnight shifts.
Value premium hours with the overtime calculator and retain the workday category described in the overtime calculation guide.
Record time before valuing it
Use actual clock times
Do not replace a missing time record with a rounded memory estimate.
Subtract only unpaid breaks
Paid rest periods should not be removed from paid hours.
- Calculation method
- Elapsed shift minutes minus unpaid break, multiplied by workdays.
- Best used for
- Checking time records, expected pay hours or the time cost of a role.
- Keep outside the result
- Whether breaks are legally compliant, overtime entitlement, paid standby and split shifts.
Handle overnight work explicitly
When finish time is earlier than start time, the tool adds one day before subtracting the break. Record the correct work date beside that shift.
Separate paid and unpaid time
An unpaid break reduces paid hours. Preparation, handover or required waiting time should not be removed without confirming its treatment.
Keep category detail
A weekly total is useful for capacity, but a payroll check still needs hours grouped by ordinary, rest-day and public-holiday categories.
Turn clock time into paid capacity in a worked example
The default example runs from 09:00 to 18:00 with a 60-minute break over five days. Elapsed time runs from clock-in to clock-out, then removes only the entered unpaid break. The weekly total multiplies that paid daily duration by workdays. An overnight shift is carried into the next date, which prevents a finish time after midnight from producing a negative duration.
- Shift start time
- 09:00
- Shift finish time
- 18:00
- Unpaid break in minutes
- 60
- Workdays per week
- 5
Paid hours per week: 40.0 hours
Keep normal days, rest days and public holidays separated when pay rates differ.
- Paid hours per day
- 8.0 hours
- Average paid hours per month
- 173.3 hours
- Weekly unpaid break time
- 5.0 hours
Calculation rule: Elapsed shift minutes minus unpaid break, multiplied by workdays. Boundary: Whether breaks are legally compliant, overtime entitlement, paid standby and split shifts.
Work-hours calculation questions
Can the finish time be after midnight?
Yes. A finish earlier than the start is treated as occurring on the next day.
Does this calculate overtime entitlement?
No. It totals time and leaves legal classification to a separate check.
Why use 4.333 weeks per month?
It converts 52 weeks into an average twelve-month figure for planning.
Connect the time record to pay and evidence
Understand salary from contract to payslip and bank credit, with practical checks for earnings, deductions, corrections and payment records.