Planning guide

Overtime Pay Calculator Australia

Plan Australian overtime pay by checking hourly rates, extra hours and the award rules that most often change the after-tax result.

Most people start here

Enter your gross pay, choose how often that number is paid, then check the after-tax result in weekly, fortnightly, monthly or annual view.

Advanced options(salary sacrifice, novated lease, partner income, MLS, Div 293)Open this if your payslip has packaging, deductions, HELP debt or household Medicare settings.

Division 293 and Medicare levy surcharge are shown as annual tax-time estimates. They are not removed from regular take-home pay because payroll usually does not withhold them as ordinary fortnightly tax.

Annual breakdown

You keep98%$34

Visual split of annual cash income after modelled tax, repayments and deductions.

Take-home

98%

$34

Income tax

0%

$0

Medicare

2%

$1

HELP

0%

$0

Deductions

0%

$0

Tax band visual

This shows how much of your taxable income falls into each marginal tax band before Medicare, HELP and other adjustments.

$0-$18,200

$35 at 0% = $0

Gross cash income$35
Taxable income$35
HELP repayment income$35
Income tax-$0
Medicare levy-$1
HELP repayment-$0
Salary sacrifice to super-$0
Novated lease pre-tax-$0
Novated lease post-tax-$0
Other deductions-$0
Net income$34
Budget after child support$34
MLS annual estimate-$0
Division 293 annual estimate-$0
Employer super$4
Concessional super total$4
Total package$39

Take-home by frequency

Annual

$34

Monthly

$3

Fortnightly

$1

Weekly

$1

Hourly

$0.02

Advanced scenario insights

What changes the real-world result?

Salary packaging

Not added

Add salary sacrifice, reportable super or novated lease deductions to test a packaged-pay scenario.

Tax-time liabilities

$0

No MLS or Division 293 estimate is currently triggered by the inputs.

Household cashflow

$34

Add partner income or child support cashflow to make the result more household-aware.

Next frontier

Centrelink, child support assessments and support-service eligibility use detailed rules beyond a salary calculator. This page now gives the wage, tax and household-cashflow side of the picture, and the support-payment scenario tool should build on these inputs next.

Assumptions and trace

  • 2026-27 Australian financial year.
  • Australian resident tax rates are used.
  • Standard 2% Medicare levy applied. Low-income reductions, exemptions and surcharge are not modelled in this first release.
  • No HELP, VSL, SSL or similar study debt repayment is included.
  • Employer super is shown separately from bank-account pay.
  • No salary sacrifice to super is included.
  • No novated lease deduction is included.
  • Medicare levy surcharge and Division 293 are shown as annual tax-time estimates and are not subtracted from regular take-home pay.
  • No child support cashflow is included.
  • Offsets, Centrelink income tests, family tax benefits and detailed private health insurance rules are not yet fully modelled.

Input annualised

Converted from the entered income frequency.

Tax bracket

Applies above $0.

Income tax

Calculated from the selected financial-year tax brackets.

Medicare levy

Standard 2% Medicare levy applied. Low-income reductions, exemptions and surcharge are not modelled in this first release.

HELP repayment

Not applied.

MLS estimate

Annual Medicare levy surcharge estimate only; not deducted from regular pay.

Division 293 estimate

Annual estimate for high-income concessional super contributions.

Employer super

Shown separately because it usually goes to a super fund.

How to use this page well

Start with your hourly rate, then pressure-test the extra hours.

If you do not know the exact award rule, this page is still useful for rough planning. Use your hourly rate, adjust hours per week, and compare the before-and-after annual result.

Best for broad planning

Good for casual and shift scenarios

Check your award separately

Compare extra hours with a flat hourly assumption

Best use cases

Extra shift planning

See whether taking more hours meaningfully changes your weekly or annual result.

Comparing a flatter roster

Check whether more steady hours beat occasional overtime once tax is considered.

Pressure-testing a payslip

Use this as a broad check before you compare it with your real award or enterprise agreement.

Check before you rely on the result

Award or enterprise agreement rate

Whether the extra hours are daily or weekly overtime

Penalty rate timing

Whether leave loading or allowances apply

Your real hourly base rate

Whether HELP debt changes the take-home result

How to use this page

Overtime can look simple until penalty rates, awards and agreements change the maths. This page gives you a safe way to estimate the upside before you rely on it.

Use hourly income for broad overtime planning, then compare the extra hours against your base pay.

This page is careful on purpose. We only show broad planning help here until the more detailed rules are fully supported.

What this estimate includes

Australian financial-year tax brackets

Standard Medicare levy assumption

HELP repayment toggle

Employer super shown separately

Annual, monthly, fortnightly and weekly views

Plain-English assumptions and trace

Frequently asked questions

Does this calculate award overtime?

No. Award and enterprise agreement logic is not implemented in this first release.

Can I still estimate extra hours?

Yes, by changing hourly rate, hours per week and weeks worked for broad scenario planning.