Additional hours
The Additional hours counter measures time worked above the employee’s norm, up to the full-time week (FTE), at base rate. It is the band below overtime. (Danish payroll: merarbejde.)
It is signed: a week worked above the norm credits a positive amount at ×1.0, while a short week is a negative carried time-debt — unless a Norm deficit counter carries the shortfall instead.
When to use
- Pay out ordinary extra hours (above the norm, below full-time) at base rate, or credit them to a time bank.
- For a part-timer, to value the hours between their norm and a full-time week before overtime kicks in.
- Leave the FTE at
0and it becomes plain worked − norm — i.e. regular flex with no upper band.
Parameters
| Setting | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Full-time week (FTE) | A full-time employee’s weekly hours, in hh:mm (e.g. 37:00). Time above this is overtime; below it (above the norm) is additional hours. Leave 0 for no ceiling — plain worked − norm. |
| Skip the negative remainder on a short week | Skip the negative part on a short week, making the counter the pure surplus between the norm and the full-time week. Turn on when a Norm deficit counter carries the deficit instead, so a short week is not counted twice. |
| Excluded from overtime | Activities whose hours never count toward the full-time week. They stay in this band however many there are — a course that must remain at the base rate however long it runs. |
How it works
For the week, the counter takes min(worked, FTE) − norm. Above the norm it is positive (up to the FTE ceiling); below the norm it is negative, unless Skip the negative remainder is on, in which case a short week contributes nothing.
Public holidays and the full-time week
A paid public holiday counts toward the full-time week. It takes its hours off the norm — it is not time the employee owes — and it also lowers the full-time threshold by the same hours, because that time has already been paid against full time.
Without this, the same hours paid would be worth different amounts. On a 6-hour-a-day contract (a 30-hour week, full-time 37:00):
| Week | Worked | Additional hours | Overtime |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon–Thu 32:00, Friday a public holiday | 32:00 | 7:00 | 1:00 |
| 10/9/7/6/6, no holiday | 38:00 | 7:00 | 1:00 |
Both weeks leave the employee 8 hours up, and both now split it the same way.
Activities excluded from overtime
Some worked hours should never reach the premium band. A course an employee is sent on is still normal paid work — it fills the norm and earns additional hours — but a long course week should not turn into overtime.
Naming an activity here lifts the full-time threshold by the hours worked on it, which is the same as measuring the threshold against non-exempt hours only. So the excluded hours can neither create overtime nor take away overtime the ordinary work earned on its own:
| Week (norm 34:00, FTE 37:00) | Ordinary | Course | Additional hours | Overtime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Without the exclusion | 30:00 | 15:00 | 3:00 | 8:00 |
| With the exclusion | 30:00 | 15:00 | 11:00 | 0:00 |
| With the exclusion | 40:00 | 5:00 | 8:00 | 3:00 |
The last row is the point: the 3:00 of overtime was earned by the 40 ordinary hours, and the course neither adds to it nor takes it away.
Hours the system fills in automatically from clock time, without a registration naming an activity, can never be excluded — only registered hours carry an activity.