Settings → Overtime lets you pick the OT rule that applies to your shop. Plyrium then surfaces regular vs OT minutes + the corresponding labor cost on every time entry — without storing 'is_ot' as a fixed flag, since that math can shift as entries are added or corrected.
Picking your rule
| Off | Don't compute OT. Use this if you're 1099-only or otherwise don't need OT tracking. |
| Federal default | FLSA — 40 hours/week. The default for most US states. |
| California | 8 hours/day OR 40 hours/week, whichever first. Strictest in the country. |
| Alaska, Nevada | Same as CA — 8/day or 40/week. |
| Colorado | 12 hours/day OR 40 hours/week. |
Multiplier
Default 1.5 = time-and-a-half (federal). Some shops pay 2.0 on holidays or Sundays — that's a per-day override on the v2 roadmap; for v1 it's a single multiplier.
How OT minutes are computed
- Plyrium walks each tech's time entries chronologically across a Sun→Sat week.
- Daily threshold (CA + similar states) applies first: minutes past the daily limit count as OT.
- Weekly threshold applies to whatever's still 'regular' after the daily split: minutes past the weekly limit count as OT.
- Cost = (regular_minutes × rate / 60) + (ot_minutes × rate × multiplier / 60).
Plyrium just surfaces the math once you've picked the rule. You're responsible for confirming your state classification + your worker classification (W-2 vs 1099) match what you've configured. When in doubt, talk to your accountant.
Each tech has their own hourly_rate_cents (set on /portal/team). The OT multiplier is shared across the whole shop. So if Mike is at $35/hr and Cathy is at $42/hr, on a 1.5x OT setting Mike makes $52.50/hr in OT and Cathy makes $63/hr.