Overtime Calculator & Rules
By CrossVault · Updated
Overtime applies when a full-time employee works beyond their rostered ordinary hours, or when a part-time or casual employee works more than 38 hours a week (averaged) or more than 10 hours in a day or shift; day workers also earn it for work outside the span of hours (cl.28.1). Use the calculator below to price a specific overtime block for your classification, or scroll for the full threshold and TOIL rules. Pricing a recurring pattern instead? The annual overtime calculator totals it over a year.
Quick Facts
- Mon–Sat — full-time disability/home care
- 150% first 2 hrs, then 200% (cl.28.1(a)(i))
- Mon–Sat — full-time SACS/crisis
- 150% first 3 hrs, then 200% (cl.28.1(a)(ii))
- Mon–Sat — part-time and casual, any stream
- 150% first 2 hrs, then 200% (cl.28.1(b)); casual 175% then 225% of the base rate
- Sunday
- 200% (Double time, any stream); casual 225% of the base rate
- Public Holiday
- 250% (Double time and a half, any stream); casual 275% of the base rate
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SCHADS Overtime Calculator
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Rates effective from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2026 (FWO Pay Guide, MA000100), SACS classification scale. Overtime only — ordinary hours, allowances and minimum payments are calculated separately. General information, not advice.
Full-Time vs Casual Overtime
Part-time and casual employees: they get overtime for time worked beyond 38 hours a week (76 per fortnight) or more than 10 hours in a day or shift, and the band is the same in every stream — 150% for the first 2 hours, then 200% (Sunday 200%, public holiday 250%) — so the 3-hour SACS/crisis band does not apply to them (cl.28.1(b)).
Casual rates: the 25% casual loading is added to the base rate, not multiplied again. In the Fair Work pay guide, a casual Level 1 pay point 1 SACS employee (base $27.55) earns $48.21 an hour for the first 2 hours of Monday to Saturday overtime (175% of base), $61.99 after 2 hours and on Sundays (225%) and $75.76 on a public holiday (275%). Multiplying the $34.44 casual rate by 150% would overstate every one of those figures.
Payroll and rostering teams who need to apply the overtime thresholds correctly after the 2026 changes can join our SCHADS Award 2026 training.
Time Off In Lieu (TOIL)
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
- Do I get overtime on weekends?
- Work performed on a weekend during standard rostered hours attracts "Saturday/Sunday Penalty Rates". Work performed in excess of rostered hours on a weekend attracts Overtime rates (often Double Time on Sundays).
- How does overtime work under the SCHADS award?
- Overtime applies when a full-time employee works beyond their rostered ordinary hours, or when a part-time or casual employee works more than 38 hours a week (averaged) or more than 10 hours in a day or shift. For full-time disability and home care employees, the rate is 150% for the first 2 hours then 200% (cl.28.1(a)(i)); for full-time SACS and crisis accommodation employees it is 150% for the first 3 hours then 200% (cl.28.1(a)(ii)). Part-time and casual employees get 150% for the first 2 hours then 200% in every stream (cl.28.1(b)). Sunday overtime is 200% and public holiday overtime 250% regardless of stream.
- Is overtime paid after 38 or 40 hours?
- Under SCHADS, part-time and casual employees reach overtime once they exceed 38 hours a week (averaged), not 40. Overtime can also apply before the weekly threshold: full-time employees earn it for work beyond their rostered ordinary hours on a day or shift, part-time and casual employees earn it after more than 10 hours in a day or shift, and day workers earn it for work outside the span of hours (cl.28.1).
- Do support workers get overtime?
- Yes. Full-time support workers covered by SCHADS receive overtime for work beyond their rostered ordinary hours (and day workers for work outside the span of hours), while part-time and casual workers receive it after more than 10 hours in a day or shift or more than 38 hours a week (averaged). Full-time disability and home care workers are paid 150% for the first 2 hours then 200% (cl.28.1(a)(i)), full-time SACS and crisis accommodation workers get 150% for the first 3 hours (cl.28.1(a)(ii)), and part-time and casual workers get 150% for the first 2 hours then 200% in every stream (cl.28.1(b)).
- What is the maximum overtime per day?
- SCHADS does not set a fixed maximum number of overtime hours per day. For casuals, overtime begins once they work more than 10 hours in a day or 38 hours in a week (cl.28.1(b)). Overtime hours are paid at the applicable overtime rate rather than capped.
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