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Overtime

The Overtime counter measures time worked beyond the full-time week (FTE), at the premium rate. It is the band above additional hours, and is never negative. (Danish payroll: overarbejde.)

When to use

  • Pay or bank hours above a full-time week at a premium (typically ×1.5 or ×1.25, applied by the settlement step that credits it).
  • Combined with Additional hours on the same FTE, so the two bands meet exactly: base rate up to the FTE, premium above it.

Parameters

SettingMeaning
Full-time week (FTE)A full-time employee’s weekly hours, in hh:mm (e.g. 37:00). Overtime is the time worked beyond this.
Raise threshold to normWhen the employee’s norm exceeds the full-time week, raise the overtime threshold to their norm so contracted hours aren’t paid as overtime. On by default; turn off to start overtime at the full-time week regardless of norm.

How it works

For the week, the counter takes max(worked − threshold, 0), where the threshold is the FTE — or, when Raise threshold to norm is on and the norm is higher, the norm. It resets each week and is always zero or positive; the premium itself is applied by the settlement step that credits it (e.g. over * 1.5).

Keep Raise threshold to norm the same on Overtime and on the matching Additional hours counter — otherwise the two bands can overlap or leave a gap for employees whose norm is above the full-time week.