FLSA Rates for Hospital Employees
Hospitals and nursing homes can enter into agreements with employees under which they use a 14 consecutive day period, rather than a seven-day period, as the basis for calculating overtime. The FLSA formula is the same as hourly employees.
Note: You must select the FLSA calendar with 14 FLSA period in days on the FLSA Period Definition page. For the FLSA feature to work, you must pay the 8/80 employees biweekly. When you pay some employees 8/80 and some on a seven-day period, you must assign employees to separate pay groups, based on the FLSA method of calculating premium pay.
|
Item |
Description |
|---|---|
|
Employee |
Bill |
|
Contractual hourly rate |
12.00 USD |
|
Workday |
8 hours |
|
FLSA period |
14 days |
Contractual Calculation
|
Earnings Code |
Hours |
Rate |
Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Regular |
76 |
12.00 USD |
912.00 USD |
|
Overtime at 1.5 |
6.5 |
18.00 USD = 12.00 USD × 1.5 |
117.00 USD |
|
Shift 2 differential |
40 |
3.25 USD |
130.00 USD |
|
Shift 2 overtime at 1.5 |
4 |
22.875 USD = (12.00 USD + 3.25 USD) × 1.5 |
91.50 USD |
|
Sick pay, shift 2 |
4 |
15.25 |
61.00 USD |
|
Total wages |
|
|
1311.50 USD |
Bill's contractual premium pay is 69.50 USD:
12.00 USD × 0.5 × 6.5 overtime hours = 39.00 USD.
15.25 USD × 0.5 × 4.0 shift overtime hours = 30.50 USD.
FLSA Calculation
|
Earnings Code |
Hours |
Straight-Time Rate |
Straight-Time Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Regular |
76 |
12.00 USD |
912.00 USD |
|
Overtime at 1.0 |
6.5 |
12.00 USD |
78.00 USD |
|
Shift 2 differential |
0 |
3.25 USD |
130.00 USD |
|
Shift 2 overtime at 1.0 |
4 |
15.25 USD |
61.00 USD |
|
Sick pay, shift 2 |
0 |
|
0.00 USD (not used to calculate FLSA regular rate) |
|
Totals |
86.50 |
|
1181.00 USD |
Calculations (Only use total hours of 86.50 worked for FLSA regular rate. Shift hours are already included in regular, and sick hours are not used):
FLSA rate:
13.653 USD = 1181.00 USD / 86.50 total pay period hours.
Premium pay:
71.67 USD = 13.653 USD × 0.5 × 10.5 total pay period overtime hours.
Because the FLSA overtime premium of 71.67 USD is greater than the contractual premium of 69.50 USD, use the FLSA rate to calculate Bill's overtime.