Timesheet Calculator Australia
Work out paid hours, unpaid breaks, decimal hours and estimated gross pay for a week or a fortnight. Handles split shifts and overnight shifts. Free, no sign-up.
- Weekly or fortnightly
- AUD
- CSV and print
- Runs in your browser
Enter the threshold, multiplier and rounding that apply to your award, agreement or contract. Across the fortnight is a calculation option, not a ruling on whether your award allows averaging. Enter the unpaid break only, not any paid break.
Quick answer: paid hours = finish time minus start time minus unpaid break. A 9:00 am start, 5:30 pm finish and 30 minute unpaid break is 8 paid hours (8.00 in decimal). If the finish is earlier than the start, the shift runs past midnight.
By R.K., Ultimate Info Guide. Updated 28 September 2026. Fair Work Ombudsman pages checked on that date.
This timesheet calculator works out weekly or fortnightly hours in Australia from your start time, finish time and unpaid break. It handles overnight shifts, split shifts, decimal hours and an optional gross pay estimate, and it runs entirely in your browser.
Timesheet Calculator Australia: What It Does
- Adds up a 7 day or 14 day timesheet in one go.
- Takes any number of shifts per day, including split shifts.
- Counts overnight shifts and deducts unpaid breaks.
- Shows both clock time (8h 30m) and decimal hours (8.50).
- Estimates gross pay, with an optional overtime setting you control.
- Exports a CSV, prints, or saves a PDF.
How to use it
- Choose Weekly or Fortnightly.
- Enter each start and finish time, for example 09:00 and 17:30, or 9am and 5:30pm.
- Enter the unpaid break in minutes.
- Enter your hourly rate to see a gross pay estimate.
- Use Add shift for a split shift, or Fill Mon to Fri and Copy Monday to save typing.
- Copy the report, download the CSV, or print the page.
Worked examples
8 paid hours, which is 8.00 decimal hours.
7h 30m paid, which is 7.50 decimal hours.
8 paid hours across two shifts.
40 paid hours. With a 38 hour threshold setting, 2 hours are shown above that setting.
38 x $30 = $1,140.00, plus 2 x $45 = $90.00. Total $1,230.00 before tax, if your award pays 1.5 times above 38 hours.
A shift of 7h 52m paid becomes 7h 45m. This is a simple rounding option, not an Australian payroll rounding rule.
Minutes to decimal hours
Decimal hours are hours plus minutes divided by 60. So 10 minutes is 0.17, 15 is 0.25, 20 is 0.33, 30 is 0.50, 40 is 0.67, 45 is 0.75 and 50 is 0.83.
Ordinary hours, overtime and breaks in Australia
Under the National Employment Standards, an employer generally cannot request or require a full-time employee to work more than 38 hours a week unless the additional hours are reasonable. For other employees the limit is the lesser of 38 hours and their ordinary hours. Awards and agreements can also set different ordinary hours and can include averaging arrangements over a longer period. Fair Work maximum weekly hours fact sheet.
Whether overtime is paid, and at what rate, comes from your award, enterprise agreement or employment contract. Fair Work: when overtime applies.
Paid and unpaid rest breaks and meal breaks are also set by awards and registered agreements, and the length varies. Fair Work: breaks.
Check your award. The overtime threshold, multiplier, fortnight mode and rounding in this tool are calculation settings you control, not a ruling on what you are owed. Penalty rates, loadings, allowances, leave and superannuation are not included.
Minimum wage, casual loading and superannuation
From 1 July 2026 the National Minimum Wage is $26.44 an hour, or $1,004.90 for a 38 hour week before tax. This is the floor for employees not covered by an award or enterprise agreement, and most awards set a higher rate. Fair Work: minimum wages.
A casual employee on the National Minimum Wage also gets a 25 percent casual loading, taking their rate to $33.05 an hour. Fair Work minimum wages fact sheet. Superannuation is paid on top of these rates at the standard 12 percent superannuation guarantee rate, and is not included in the gross pay figure this calculator shows.
Keep your own record of hours
Employers must keep time and wages records for 7 years. Fair Work record-keeping guidance. Keeping your own record makes it easier to check a payslip. The Fair Work Ombudsman also offers a free Record My Hours app that needs no registration.
Daylight saving and overnight shifts
This calculator counts the hours shown on the clock and does not apply time zone or daylight saving clock-change adjustments. The Fair Work Ombudsman says that if an award or agreement is silent, employees working overnight when daylight saving starts or ends are paid by the clock. Some awards say otherwise, so check yours. Fair Work: hours of work.
Privacy
The calculation runs in your browser. Your entries are not stored on our server by this calculator. The share link stores your entries inside the link itself, so only share it with people you trust.
Frequently asked questions
What is Timesheet Calculator Australia?
It turns start and finish times into paid hours, takes off unpaid breaks and totals the result for a week or fortnight. It can also estimate gross pay.
Can I calculate fortnightly hours?
Yes. Choose Fortnightly to enter two weeks. Overtime can be measured for each week separately or across the whole fortnight.
Can it handle overnight shifts?
Yes. If the finish is earlier than the start, the finish is treated as the next day.
Can I enter split shifts?
Yes. Use Add shift to put a second shift on the same day.
Does it work out Australian overtime automatically?
No. Overtime and penalty rates depend on your award or agreement. This tool applies the hours limit and multiplier you enter and does not decide what you are owed.
Can I download the timesheet?
Yes. Download a CSV for a spreadsheet, or use Print to save a PDF.
Methodology
Each start and finish is converted to minutes. If the finish is earlier than the start, 24 hours is added. The unpaid break is deducted, then optional rounding is applied to the shift length before day and period totals are added.
With overtime estimation on, hours up to your threshold setting are paid at your rate and hours above it at your rate multiplied by your chosen multiplier. One multiplier is applied to all overtime hours, so tiered overtime such as time and a half then double time needs a separate calculation for each tier. Results are estimates before tax.
Related tools
For other pay and business calculations, see the Business Operations Calculators hub on Ultimate Info Guide.
Disclaimer: this tool gives estimates from the numbers you enter. It is not legal, tax, payroll or employment advice. For current rules, see the Fair Work Ombudsman.