Overtime and state rules · rules read October 11, 2026
Nevada overtime and the wage cutoff for daily hours
The calculator is fixed on Nevada: your hourly rate decides whether long days count, so enter it before the hours of each day.
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Overtime pay this week
$108.00
4.00 h at 1.5x · gross $828.00
| Total hours | 44.00 h |
| Regular hours | 40.00 h × $18.00 |
| Overtime hours | 4.00 h × $27.00 |
| Gross pay before taxes | $828.00 |
Nevada: daily overtime does not apply at this hourly rate, so only the 40-hour weekly rule is used. Days are in workweek order. How this is calculated.
Nevada pays overtime after 8 hours in a day only to employees whose hourly rate is below one and a half times the state minimum wage; everyone else gets overtime after 40 hours in the workweek, as under federal law. With the minimum at $12.00 in the Department of Labor’s table of state laws, the cutoff is $18.00 an hour. The consequence is a cliff, not a slope. Four ten-hour days at $17.99 hold 8 overtime hours and pay $791.56, while the same days at exactly $18.00 hold none and pay $720.00, so a raise of one cent costs $71.56 that week. At $16.50, the four long days pay $726.00 against $660.00 in a state without a daily rule. Long weeks stay protected at any rate: five ten-hour days carry 10 overtime hours even at $25.
Nevada daily overtime test
Daily overtime after 8 hours
Yes
| Limit (1.5 × minimum wage) | $18.00 |
| Weekly overtime after 40 hours | Yes, at any rate |
One rate, two answers: the $18.00 line
Most overtime rules ask how long you worked. Nevada first asks how much you earn. The Department of Labor’s table of state premium-pay laws sums it up: daily overtime after 8 hours applies to employees paid less than one and a half times the minimum wage, and weekly overtime after 40 hours applies to all. With the minimum at $12.00, multiply by 1.5 and the line falls at $18.00.
The word that matters is "less than". A housekeeper at $15, a cook at $16.50 and a cashier at $17.99 are all inside the daily rule. A dealer whose base is exactly $18.00 is outside it, and so is anyone above. Once outside, only the 40-hour weekly count of the FLSA protects the paycheck, and long days in a short week are paid straight.
| Hourly rate | Daily rule on? | Overtime hours (four 10-hour days) | Gross for the week |
|---|---|---|---|
| $12.00 | Yes | 8 | $528.00 |
| $16.50 | Yes | 8 | $726.00 |
| $17.99 | Yes | 8 | $791.56 |
| $18.00 | No | 0 | $720.00 |
| $20.00 | No | 0 | $800.00 |
The cliff at the cutoff, in dollars
The fourth row pays less than the third. A worker moving from $17.99 to $18.00 on a four-day schedule loses $71.56 a week, because the 8 hours that were paid at time and a half go back to straight time. Over a quarter of such weeks, that is $930.28. The raise only pays off around $19.79 an hour on that schedule. Anyone negotiating a wage near the line with long shifts should run both figures in the calculator before agreeing.
The cliff disappears on regular schedules. Eight-hour days never trigger daily overtime, so a cent more is a cent more. It also disappears in long weeks: five ten-hour days at $15 hold 10 overtime hours under the daily rule, and at $25 they still hold 10 under the weekly one. The cutoff only bites when long days sit inside a week that stays at or under 40 hours.
A warning on scope. Nevada's statute carries other conditions and exceptions that this page does not cover, because the legislature's own text could not be checked at the time of writing; the figures here are the ones the federal table publishes. If an employer says a particular arrangement removes daily overtime for a worker under $18.00, ask for the written basis and check it with the Nevada Labor Commissioner.
Weekly overtime for every Nevada wage
The weekly rule is identical to the federal one: 1.5 times the regular rate after 40 hours in a fixed workweek, with no averaging between weeks (Fact Sheet #23). Nondiscretionary bonuses and shift differentials form part of the regular rate and raise the overtime rate, which is worth checking for casino and hotel night crews. The regular rate guide shows that calculation, the state comparison sets Nevada beside California, Alaska and Colorado, and the time and a half calculator gives the overtime rate for any wage.