Working hours & overtime calculator
What the extra hours come to — counted properly.
These figures are provisional. They have not yet been confirmed against ACCUREX’s payroll practice — treat anything here as indicative.
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Enter the pay and the hours.
The statutory minimums come to more than the pay at this level, so the figure goes below zero. The SHIF minimum is a fixed amount rather than a percentage, so it does not scale down with very small monthly earnings.
Figures and review date. PAYE bands, reliefs and the taxable-pay rules from the Kenya Revenue Authority; NSSF from the NSSF; SHIF from the Social Health Authority. Reviewed . This is a calculator, not advice — it works only from the figures you enter and takes no account of your contracts or policies. Check any figure before you rely on it.
Why a monthly salary is different
Overtime is one and a half times the hourly rate on a normal day, and double on a rest day or public holiday.
But someone on a monthly salary has already been paid for that hour — the salary covers the month. So the extra hour owes them the 0.5, not the 1.5. On a rest day it owes the 1.0, not the 2.0. Paying the full multiplier on top of a salary pays the base hour twice.
Someone paid by the day or the hour has had nothing pre-paid, so the full 1.5 and 2.0 apply.
House allowance
On a monthly salary the hourly rate is built from basic pay plus house allowance, so the allowance is set here as a percentage of basic or as a fixed amount.
On a daily or hourly rate nothing is added — those rates are published inclusive of house allowance already.
Where the rates come from
Hours a month is the contracted week × 52 ÷ 12. A 52-hour week is 225.33 hours a month.
For a monthly salary the hourly rate is basic pay plus house allowance divided by those hours — other allowances do not form part of it.
For a daily rate the hourly equivalent is the day rate over an eight-hour day.
Extra hours are entered as hours in a day and how many days, and the month’s total is worked out for you.
Need a hand?
A calculator answers the arithmetic. The judgement — what a contract provides, how a policy applies, what a particular case needs — is a conversation.
ACCUREX advises on exactly this, every day. Talk to an HR consultant.
Common questions
It is the arithmetic of not paying twice for the same hour. The entitlement is one and a half times; the salary has already delivered one of those, so the overtime line owes the remaining half.
That is the basis in the ACCUREX payroll specification. Other allowances — car, meals, per diem — are not part of the hourly rate.
It gives a daily rate that does not change from month to month. The hourly rate is different: it comes from the contracted week, because that is what an hour of work is measured against.
Overtime you can trace to a shift
PiPO HRIS prices overtime from approved attendance, at the multiplier the employee's own terms call for.