In straight time pay, the employee is paid the regular wage per hours actually worked by him within a standard pay period that normally lasts a week or two weeks. This type of pay does not involve overtime pay or bonuses.
Straight time pay is easy to calculate, just follow the following steps to do it-
1. Calculate the employee’s hourly wage: If he or she is an hour wage earner then you would use his normal hour rate, and if they are salary workers then you have to calculate it. Choose a period of time-annual, monthly or weekly. Divide the salary by no. of hours worked to get his hourly pay.
2. Hourly Rate x Hours Worked: Multiply the employee’s hourly rate by standard hours he or she worked during the workweek. This is normally 40 hours.
Example: An employee, working 35 hours in one week at $15 an hour, would have a straight time pay as follows: $15 x 35 = $525.
In the United States, straight time pay laws are different. All employees should receive at least federal minimum wage for standard hours under the Fair Labor Standards Act or FLSA.
It also prescribes overtime compensation for any work done over and above the standard 40-hour workweek to be given at a rate of at least one and half times the regular hourly rate of the employee.
Straight Time refers to the pay that an employee earns based on regular hours worked at his or her standard rate. Overtime pay, instead refers to compensation that an employee earns for working more hours beyond a set threshold.
This time generally results in pay at a higher hourly rate-it is usually paid at 1.5 times the regular hourly rate for the same employee. For example, if an employee works for 45 hours a week, then they will earn straight time for the first 40 hours and overtime for the extra 5 hours.
There are a few employees to whom straight time pay applies, and all others are on an hourly or salaried check. The problem with calculating straight time is that for salaried employees, if you go paid hours, there is no necessary relation between the amount of hours you work and how much salary you receive; they will pay you. This somehow complicates the calculation of straight time.
“Straight hours” mean consecutive or successive hours without any break or interruption. It applies to circumstances wherein the basic shift workers do not go beyond the maximum limit of overtime.
A direct time shift is described as a working schedule where employees get paid at their standard hour rate with no overtime pay. This implies that however many hours they work in the same shift, they receive payments according to their given rate provided they do not surpass the overtime limit.
Straight time billable pay is the amount charged to the clients based on an employee’s standard hourly rate for services rendered during normal working hours. It does not accommodate overtime or extra fees but solely represents a billing rate for work conducted in officially designated hours by the employee.
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