SCHADS Overtime Calculator
By CrossVault · Updated
SCHADS overtime has a trap most generic calculators miss: when time and a half becomes double time depends on your stream. Social and community services employees step up after 3 hours of Monday–Saturday overtime; disability and home care employees after 2 hours; part-time employees after 2 hours regardless of stream. Sundays are double time from the first minute and public holidays double time and a half. This calculator prices a recurring weekly pattern over a year at the clause 28.1 rules; to price a single overtime block at your exact classification rate, use the per-level calculator on the overtime rules guide.
Quick Facts
- Mon–Sat (SACS full-time)
- 150% first 3 hrs, then 200%
- Mon–Sat (disability/home care FT)
- 150% first 2 hrs, then 200%
- Part-time (all streams)
- 150% first 2 hrs, then 200%
- Sunday overtime
- 200% from the first minute
- Public holiday overtime
- 250%
- Source
- Clause 28.1, rates 1 Jul 2026
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Calculate Your Overtime
| Mon–Sat at 150% ( hrs/wk) | |
| Mon–Sat at 200% ( hrs/wk) | |
| Sunday at 200% | |
| Public holiday at 250% |
Casual? Casual overtime interacts with the 25% loading in ways the award states clause-by-clause, so this calculator doesn't estimate it — upload a timesheet and we'll check the actual shifts. General information only, not legal or financial advice. Multipliers from clause 28.1; the time-and-a-half step is applied per day.
The Rules Behind the Numbers
- Full-time, Monday to Saturday — disability services, home care and day care employees: time and a half for the first 2 hours, double time after (cl 28.1(a)(i)). Social and community services and crisis accommodation employees: time and a half for the first 3 hours, double time after (cl 28.1(a)(ii)). The step applies per occasion, which is why the calculator asks for a typical day.
- Part-time and casual — overtime starts past 38 hours/week, 76 hours/fortnight (cl 28.1(b)(i)) or past 10 hours in a day or shift (cl 28.1(b)(ii)) — 12 hours where a shift wraps a sleepover by agreement (cl 28.1(b)(iii)). Time and a half for the first 2 hours, then double time.
- Sunday overtime is double time from the first minute; public holidays double time and a half.
- Overtime vs penalty rates: overtime rates replace shift premiums and don't apply to ordinary hours worked on a Saturday or Sunday (cl 28.1(b)(vii)) — those attract penalty rates instead. If you're pricing ordinary weekend hours, that's the other calculator.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- When does SCHADS overtime become double time?
- On Monday to Saturday: after 2 hours at time and a half for full-time disability, home care and day care employees, and after 3 hours for social and community services and crisis accommodation employees (part-time employees step up after 2 hours in every stream). Sunday overtime is double time from the first minute, and public holiday overtime is double time and a half.
- When does overtime start for part-time SCHADS employees?
- Past 38 hours in a week or 76 in a fortnight, past 10 hours in a day or shift, or past 12 hours where a shift wraps around a sleepover by agreement. Hours between the contracted and those thresholds are paid at ordinary rates.
- Do casual employees get overtime under SCHADS?
- Yes — the same weekly and daily triggers apply to casuals (clause 28.1(b)). How the 25% casual loading interacts with the overtime rate is stated clause-by-clause, so for casuals we recommend checking actual shifts rather than a flat estimate.
- Is a Saturday shift automatically overtime?
- No. Ordinary rostered Saturday hours attract the 150% penalty rate, not overtime. Overtime rates only apply to hours beyond the ordinary-hours limits, and clause 28.1(b)(vii) makes them a substitute for, not an addition to, shift premiums.
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