China Overtime Pay Calculator — Workday 1.5×, Rest-Day 2×, Holiday 3× (Labor Law Art. 44)

Real-world use cases

• Checking a 996 month before raising it with HR

  You worked 9am-9pm six days a week for a month: roughly 60 hours of weekday extension and 40 rest-day hours on top of your 12,000 yuan salary. The calculator turns that into 1.5× and 2× line items off an hourly base of 68.97 yuan, so you walk into the HR meeting with a number like 11,000+ yuan owed rather than a vague complaint.

• Verifying a Spring Festival shift was paid at 3×

  A factory line lead works Feb 17-19 during the Spring Festival statutory days. Each 8-hour day should pay 300% of the hourly base, not the 200% the payslip shows. Enter 24 holiday hours and the tool flags the gap: 3× on a 5,000 yuan salary is about 827 yuan, while the mistaken 2× underpays by roughly 276 yuan over the three days.

• Catching an illegally low salary base

  A worker in Shenzhen earns 2,200 yuan, below the local 2,360 minimum. The calculator paints a red banner and recomputes overtime off the legal minimum instead of the contract figure, showing that every 1.5× hour was shorted. This is the exact recalculation a labor arbitrator runs, so you arrive at the hearing with the corrected total ready.

• Separating a swapped Saturday from a real holiday

  The 2026 calendar makes you work a Saturday to bridge a holiday. Many assume that day pays 3×, but a swapped weekend is only a rest day at 2×. Put the hours in the rest-day bucket and the tool confirms 2×, so you do not over-claim and hand your employer an easy rebuttal.

Common pitfalls

• Dividing salary by 30 or 22 instead of 21.75 inflates or deflates your base; a 10,000 yuan salary gives 57.47/hour at 21.75 but 41.67 at 30, a 38% gap.

• Claiming 3× for a swapped-Saturday make-up day. Only the 11 named statutory days pay 3×; a bridge Saturday is a rest day at 2×, so a holiday claim there gets rejected.

• Accepting comp time for weekday or holiday overtime. Only rest-day work can be offset with comp time; weekday 1.5× and holiday 3× must be paid in cash, never swapped for a day off.

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