Shift work and varied hours are hard to add up. Enter the start and finish time for each day, with any unpaid break, and this calculator gives the hours for each day, the total for the week and, if you add your hourly rate, your pay before tax.
How to Use It
Leave a day empty if you do not work it. Use 24 hour times, or your phone's time picker. A shift that finishes after midnight is counted as running into the next day, so a 10pm to 6am shift is 8 hours. Enter any unpaid break in minutes and it is taken off.
A Worked Example
A Monday shift from 09:00 to 17:30 with a 30 minute unpaid break is 8 hours. Added to four more shifts of the same length, that is 40 hours, and at £12 an hour it would be £480 before tax.
What the Result Does Not Include
The pay figure is hours multiplied by your rate, before tax and National Insurance. Overtime rates, holiday pay and bonuses are not included.
Questions about Working Hours Calculator
Does it work for night shifts?
Yes. If the finish time is earlier than the start time, the calculator treats the shift as finishing the next day. A shift from 22:00 to 06:00 counts as 8 hours.
Is the pay before or after tax?
The pay shown is before tax and National Insurance. It is simply your hours multiplied by your hourly rate, so it will be more than what reaches your bank account.
How is the monthly figure worked out?
The average month is the weekly pay multiplied by 52 and divided by 12. Months are different lengths, so a real payday can be a little more or less than this average.