Qualified Overtime Spot Check, TY2026

1. The workweek

Hours actually worked (h)

Straight hourly rate ($/h)

Overtime paid at (× rate)

Overwrites the pay lines below with straight time plus a single time-and-a-half overtime line. Everything else you can edit by hand.

How the employee is paid (29 CFR 778.109–.122)

Pay date of the overtime (sets the tax year)

2. Pay lines for this workweek

Every line the register shows for this workweek, with what it is. The classification is the whole calculation: it decides what enters the regular rate, what counts as a premium, and what is nothing at all.

Description	What it is	Amount $	Hours	Rate $/h	×

3. Who this employee is coverage, exemption, state

Employer

FLSA status for this workweek

State the work was performed in

Applicable minimum wage ($/h, blank = federal)

Equity the employee owns (%)

Per-component tolerance ($)

Actively engaged in managing the business 29 CFR 541.101: a bona fide equity holder of the stated percentage or more who is actively engaged in management is an executive, and no overtime is required.

The enterprise is covered by the FLSA 29 USC 203(s). Untick only if you have established it is not.

This employee is individually covered Needed only when the enterprise is not covered.

The employee's status or pay basis changed part-way through this workweek Assumption A10: a status change should be aligned to a workweek boundary. Where it is not, this tool resolves the week the way the engine does, and flags it.

4. Does any of this apply? things one workweek cannot answer

Tick anything that is true. Each one takes the answer outside what a single-workweek spot check can stand behind, and the tool will say so rather than give you a number that looks complete and is not.

Worked examples

Reference examples, loaded from the same inputs this tool's test suite runs. Two reproduce a published worked example; one is the figure a published rule produces where that rule prints no example; the California week is this kit's own case and no agency's. Load one and check the arithmetic against the source before you trust the tool with your own numbers.

Qualified overtime this workweek

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Every dollar on this week's pay lines

Amount	What it is, and why it is or is not qualified

Notices

The working every intermediate figure

What this number is not read before you file

Constants and citations every value this tool uses

Every constant below is generated into this file from params/ty2026.json at build time and carries the primary source it was read from. Nothing here was typed by hand into the calculation.

Colophon

This file is published by Tie-Out Press, which also produces the Qualified Overtime Kit, TY2026 edition. The kit reads a payroll register for the whole year rather than one workweek. It allocates deferred nondiscretionary bonuses and commissions back across the workweeks they were earned in (29 CFR 778.209(b)), computes the components for compensatory time cashed out or taken as leave (29 USC 207(o)), for back pay and for retroactive rate increases, and adds every workweek and every deferred component into the one annual figure that goes in box 12 as code TT. It writes an exception log naming each row it refused to compute and why, and a method memo recording the rule applied to each figure, for the reviewer who asks how a number was reached.

The kit is paid. This file is not a trial of it: nothing here expires and nothing is held back. tieoutpress.com