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Arizona overtime 2026: $21 × 43 hours pays $934.50, not $903

Arizona follows the federal FLSA weekly-40 rule, not California daily overtime. At $21/hour, 43 hours = $934.50 (3 hours at $31.50). The same 43 hours as four 10-hour days plus 3 in California pay $987.

Calcufast Team
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Arizona does not add a daily overtime statute on top of the Fair Labor Standards Act. For a non-exempt hourly job, overtime starts after 40 hours in one workweek. How those hours sat on Monday versus Thursday does not change the federal math.

At $21/hour and 43 hours:

  • Straight 40 × $21 = $840
  • Overtime 3 × $31.50 = $94.50
  • Week = $934.50
  • Straight 43 × $21 would have been $903. The extra $31.50 is the time-and-a-half.

That is the live FLSA overtime calculator.

The same 43 hours as four 10-hour days plus 3 in California pay $987, because Labor Code § 510 also looks at each day. Arizona does not.

The Florida leftover used a different rate and week: $18 × 48 hours → $936. Texas leftover: $22 × 45 hours → $1,045. Nevada leftover: $16 × 44 hours → $736. Same statute. Different stub.

More United States paycheck and overtime tools live on the United States calculators hub.

Gross wages, not take-home

Both overtime tools stop at weekly gross. They do not withhold FIT or FICA. Overtime dollars are still wages. Employee FICA (6.2% up to the $184,500 2026 Social Security wage base, plus 1.45% Medicare) applies the same way as on straight time (Topic 751). This page does not invent an Arizona income-tax rate.

Direct answer: $21 × 43 → $934.50

  1. Hours over 40 = 3
  2. Overtime rate = $21 × 1.5 = $31.50
  3. Regular pay = 40 × $21 = $840
  4. Overtime pay = 3 × $31.50 = $94.50
  5. Weekly total = $934.50
FLSA weekly-40 (29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1))

overtime hours = max(0, hours in the workweek − 40)

weekly total = (straight hours × rate) + (OT hours × 1.5 × rate)

Arizona vs California on the same 43 hours

RuleHow the 43 hours sitWeek
Arizona / FLSAAny 43 hours in one week$934.50
Straight time (no OT)43 × $21$903
Four 10-hour days plus 3 (CA daily OT)4 × 10 + 3$987
Three 11-hour days plus 10 (CA daily OT)3 × 11 + 10$1,018.50
California 2 × 14 + 8 + 7Two 14-hour days, then 8 and 7$1,071

Four 10-hour days plus a 3-hour day in California add 8 daily overtime hours (2 per 10-hour day). That week is $987. Pack the same 43 hours into two 14-hour days plus 8 and 7 and California adds double time after 12. That week is $1,071. Arizona still pays $934.50 either way. Run the daily split on the California overtime calculator.

What Arizona still is not

  • A daily 8-hour trigger. Four 10-hour days plus 3 are still 43 hours, so Arizona still pays the same $934.50. The extra three hours are weekly, not daily.
  • A salaried exemption test. Being paid a salary does not by itself turn overtime off. That is a classification question, not this engine.
  • Two jobs added together. Each employer counts only its own hours.
  • An Arizona withholding page. Arizona has state income tax. This tool does not price it.

Salary vs hourly at a different rate: $25 × 50 hours → $1,375.

Not under the federal FLSA tool this site ships. Arizona does not overlay California's 8 / 12 / seventh-day statute. Confirm your contract and any local rule. This page is weekly-40 only.

Because 3 hours sit over 40. Those hours pay $31.50, not $21. 3 × $10.50 extra = $31.50.

California pays $987 at $21. Arizona still pays $934.50. The difference is the daily statute, not a tax.

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