Overtime pay calculator

How it is calculated

• Normal working time. Working time is at most 45 hours a week (Labour Act art. 63).
• Overtime (fazla çalışma). Work above 45 hours a week. Each hour is paid at the normal hourly wage raised by fifty per cent (art. 41).
• Extra hours below 45 (fazla sürelerle çalışma). Where the contract sets weekly working time below 45 hours, work above the average weekly time and up to 45 hours counts as extra hours; each hour is paid at the normal hourly wage raised by twenty-five per cent (art. 41).
• Yearly limit. Total overtime may not exceed 270 hours in a year, and the employee’s consent is needed for work beyond normal hours (art. 41). The calculator does not remove hours above the limit; it only warns.
• General holidays (ulusal bayram ve genel tatil). An employee who does not work on a national or general holiday is paid the full day’s wage; one who works is paid in addition one day’s wage for each day worked (art. 47). Art. 49 says the same for monthly-paid employees. The day’s wage is the monthly wage divided by 30, which is court practice.
• Hourly wage. The Act does not say how to get the hourly wage from a monthly wage. Court practice divides the monthly gross wage by 225 for a 45-hour week (30 days × 7.5 hours; art. 49 counts a day as 7.5 hours for hourly-paid employees). For a contractual week shorter than 45 hours the calculator scales the divisor in proportion (200 for 40 hours, for example). That is the calculator’s own choice and needs checking by the responsible lawyer. You can enter your own divisor in the “Divisor for the hourly wage” field.

Example

A monthly gross wage of 22,500 TL, a 45-hour contract and 50 hours worked a week for 4 weeks. The hourly wage is 22,500 ÷ 225 = 100 TL. Overtime is 4 × 5 = 20 hours, paid at 20 × 100 × 1.5 = 3,000 TL gross.

What it leaves out

• Free time instead of pay. At the employee’s wish, free time may replace the increased pay: one hour thirty minutes for each overtime hour and one hour fifteen minutes for each extra hour below 45 (art. 41).
• Averaging of working time (denkleştirme). Where weekly hours are distributed unevenly and the average over two months (longer under a collective agreement) does not exceed 45 hours, exceeding 45 hours in some weeks is not overtime (arts 41 and 63). The calculator treats weeks one by one; enter averaged hours if averaging applies.
• Weekly rest day work (art. 46), night work, underground mining (art. 41 has separate rules) and make-up work (art. 64).
• Tax and social security: the amount is gross.
• Which additional payments form part of the wage, and more favourable terms in the employment contract or a collective agreement.