Confirm your agreement, not a common example
Open Settings → Edit pay rules → Your rules. Optional rules remain off until you enable them. Overtime and premiums (daily overtime, Sunday premium) come first; Advanced rules (callout minimum, flat per diem) are for work such as utility and field callouts and stay off unless you confirm them. The app does not infer an agreement from your employer, local, job title, or location.
A calculation can only cover what the app represents and you confirm. Keep a missing-rule note rather than approximating an unsupported entitlement.
Daily overtime and additional tiers
Enable Daily overtime, then enter After this many hours in a day and Multiplier (1.5 = time and a half). Use Add another overtime tier when your confirmed daily rule has additional thresholds.
A synthetic example: after eight worked hours at 1.5×, ten hours at a $50 base rate produce eight hours at $50 and two at $75: $550 before any other applicable rule. This is an illustration, not a default policy.
Multiple entries on the same payroll-local date share the daily overtime calculation. Unpaid breaks do not count as worked time. A weekly threshold is different from a daily threshold: do not enter 40 as a daily threshold to simulate weekly overtime.
Restricted weekly overtime review
V2 development preview: the expanded review below is implemented in the candidate; native interaction and accessibility validation is still pending. Earlier App Store builds may show a simpler review.
For a confirmed covered, nonexempt hourly profile, enable Weekly overtime review. Open Pay → Review weekly overtime. The initial date is a suggestion from your configured weekday. Set the actual Workweek starts date and time, check Payroll timezone and 168-hour end (excluded), and confirm the boundary against your employer’s recurring workweek. A calendar pay period is a different concept. Daylight saving can change the local end time; do not choose dates merely to move overtime hours between weeks.
Confirm that every shift in this interval is logged. The review can use work from multiple saved pay periods, including only the portion of a crossing shift inside this workweek, with actual unpaid breaks removed and dated rates retained. Incompatible historical rule/timezone scope needs review.
Enter Reviewed straight-time wages for the complete week. Use Add other payment for every other cash amount and explicitly choose its treatment. Include bonuses or non-overtime work premiums when applicable; use an exclusion or eligible credit only after checking its actual conditions. An “overtime” label alone does not establish a credit. Enter only the extra premium above base wages already included in straight time, not a full-rate overtime line. Do not enter net pay, YTD totals, employer fund contributions, or duplicate base wages. Unknown or unclassified treatment prevents a result. Confirm the payment review separately, then choose Check this workweek.
A paycheck period at or below 40 hours can still need complete-workweek mapping; a separate or attached weekly result does not supply that mapping. The review is not saved, not added to Expected wages, and does not automatically clear a paycheck’s weekly-review warning. Changing the week clears unsaved payment rows; changing material facts or relevant work/rules invalidates the result and confirmations. Cash shown concerns only the entered classification and declared scope. State/local, public-agency, exemption, union/CBA, alternative-method and other obligations remain separate. Keep actual work and clarify uncertainty rather than inserting fake hours or treating this reference calculation as a legal conclusion.
Weekdays, dates, and outside-schedule pay
Sunday premium sets a Sunday multiplier. Under Other weekdays, add another weekday premium. Under Holidays and specific dates, use Add premium date for the particular dates and multipliers you have confirmed. The app does not maintain an automatically authoritative holiday calendar for your agreement.
Outside-schedule pay lets you enter the same daytime regular schedule on selected weekdays and an outside-schedule multiplier. Overnight schedule windows are not supported by this setup. This limitation is about the schedule definition, not recording actual overnight shifts.
When supported premiums overlap, the highest applicable multiplier wins; they are not added or multiplied together. Verify that this matches your agreement. Do not treat a result as complete when your agreement requires another combination.
Callout minimums
Enable Callout minimum only when you have confirmed the minimum-hours rule that applies to your work, then enter Minimum paid hours.
The admitted LinePaycheck rule is an isolated minimum per confirmed physical callout event. A saved Callout row represents that event in iOS 1.0. Splitting one physical call into two rows must not create two minimums, while two genuinely separate triggering calls may be separate events even if their times are adjacent.
Log the actual start and end of the callout and any unpaid breaks. A one-hour callout with a confirmed four-hour minimum is still one hour of real work. Do not record four clock hours to represent the guarantee; the extra paid-equivalent time is a separate calculated component.
When adding a Callout that touches another Callout, use Continue existing callout if it is the same physical event, or explicitly confirm This is a separate callout only when another triggering call actually happened. Older ambiguous rows are not automatically grouped.
Regular-shift overlap, discontinuous duty, effective-rate boundaries, canceled calls, rest interactions, or other agreement-specific variants can require review. A callout crossing a rule-change boundary can therefore remain unpriced rather than receiving an invented guarantee.
Flat per diem
Enable Flat per diem and enter the amount per worked date (labelled with the profile’s currency, for example USD per worked date). This is a flat amount for a local worked date, not one payment per work entry. More than one shift on the same date does not automatically earn another daily allowance; work across local dates can affect the dates included.
Expected per diem is displayed separately from expected wages. When checking a paystub, you explicitly confirm whether its gross figure includes that allowance. LinePaycheck does not infer tax treatment.
Next: Change rules without changing the wrong work and check supported limits .
Still unsure? Keep your original records and get help before changing facts to make a total match.