Hours Calculator

Pick a start time and an end time. The total updates right away and shows the hours two ways: as hours and minutes, like 8h 30m, and as decimal hours, like 8.5. The decimal figure is the one most timesheets and payroll systems ask for.

If your day includes an unpaid break, type its length in minutes and the tool takes it off the total. Need to add up a whole week? Use "Add another time entry" to stack as many shifts as you like, or lay them out day by day in the time card calculator.

A shift that starts in the evening and ends the next morning is common for nurses, drivers, and hospitality staff. The calculator handles it on its own. When the end time is earlier than the start time, it reads the entry as an overnight shift and counts the hours through midnight.

So 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM comes out as 8 hours, not a negative number. You do not need a separate setting or a second entry for the two calendar days. Enter the clock times as they appear on the schedule and the math follows.

People read time in hours and minutes, but payroll runs on decimal hours. The two say the same thing in different units. Thirty minutes is half an hour, so 8h 30m is 8.5 hours. Fifteen minutes is a quarter hour, or 0.25.

The conversion is simple: divide the minutes by 60 and add them to the whole hours. The tool shows both at once so you can copy whichever your form needs, without doing the division by hand or rounding a quarter hour to the wrong decimal.

Hourly workers use it to check a paycheck against the hours they actually worked. Freelancers total the time on a project before they send an invoice. Managers add up a team's shifts for the week without opening a spreadsheet.

It also settles smaller questions fast. How long was that meeting? For a single span without a break, the time duration calculator is quicker, and to add a pay rate to a shift, the work hours calculator shows gross pay. Any time you have a start and an end, you get a clean answer in seconds.