What happens if I select flex but do not confirm approval?

The engine uses the standard daily-over-eight model and displays a flex-not-confirmed error.

What threshold does confirmed flex mode use?

The reviewed current Alaska form uses overtime after ten hours in a day and after 40 hours in a week for an approved applicable plan.

Can daily and weekly Alaska overtime be added together?

Trigger totals are shown separately, but overlapping minutes are removed from the final overtime total.

Does a four-day schedule prove a flex plan is valid?

No. Schedule shape is only one input. Approval, voluntary participation, records, deviations, coverage, and other requirements need separate review.

Can the calculator decide an Alaska exemption?

No. It displays a general estimate and warnings without deciding employer-size, occupation, industry, or other exemptions.

Standard and approved-flex models

Alaska Overtime Calculator

Use real Alaska shifts to keep the standard daily-over-eight model separate from a user-confirmed approved flexible-work-plan scenario, while weekly-over-forty minutes remain visible in both.

Choose an Alaska schedule model before calculating

Standard mode is the default. Flex mode cannot activate until the approval-and-application statement is checked, and a schedule deviation always produces a review warning.

Rule version Workweek start weekday Workweek start time Workday start time Time zoneElapsed time uses this IANA time zone, including daylight-saving transitions. Fallback regular hourly rateUsed when rate rows do not contain hours. Included earnings for weighted-rate scenario

Rate and hour rows for weighted regular rate

RoleRateHours

Alaska estimate mode I am modeling a voluntary flexible work hour plan that has been approved and applies to this schedule.Flex mode cannot activate without this confirmation; the checkbox does not prove validity. This week differs from the approved flex scheduleA deviation produces a warning; this tool cannot decide whether a plan is void or valid. Industry / exception note

Alaska seven-day schedule

End times at or before start cross midnight. To position an unpaid break exactly for a consecutive-hours review, enter work before and after it as separate shifts.

Date Start End Unpaid break (min)

Applicability check required: this minute-level estimate does not decide coverage, exemption status, industry exceptions, plan validity, compensable time, or a compliance conclusion.

The standard Alaska daily-and-weekly structure

Alaska's current Wage and Hour page states a general daily threshold of eight hours, a weekly threshold of 40 hours, and one-and-one-half times the regular rate, subject to listed exemptions. Standard mode therefore tags compensable minutes after eight in each selected workday and after 40 in the fixed workweek.

The Alaska overtime calculator unions those sets. Five ten-hour days create daily-triggered time and weekly-triggered time, but any minute reached by both rules remains one final overtime minute.

Flex mode requires a real approved-plan assumption

Alaska's flex page and April 2025 form say the voluntary plan must be submitted and approved before use, must apply to the employee, and can relieve daily overtime up to ten hours. This page keeps flex controls disabled in the calculation until the user confirms that an approved voluntary plan applies to the schedule.

The May 2025 industry notice describes a minimum of four workdays and 33 hours, a ten-hour daily and 40-hour weekly ceiling before overtime, an equivalent weekly schedule option, and limits on deviations. The calculator warns when the modeled week is below the shape requirements or is marked as a deviation, but it cannot decide plan validity.

Two modes that never mix

Switching modes recomputes every daily tag with one threshold. An unchecked confirmation falls back to standard mode and raises an error, so an unapproved flex assumption cannot silently reduce the estimate.

The weighted regular rate combines entered rate-row earnings and user-included compensation. The tool does not classify bonuses, piece rates, commissions, or differentials for the user.

STANDARD: dailySet = minutes after 8; weeklySet = minutes after 40
CONFIRMED FLEX: dailySet = minutes after 10; weeklySet = minutes after 40
finalOT = dailySet ∪ weeklySet
overlapRemoved = daily triggers + weekly triggers - finalOT

A compressed-week example

Under standard mode, one ten-hour day contains two hours after the eight-hour threshold. Under a confirmed approved flex scenario, the same ten-hour day contains no daily overtime, while time beyond ten and weekly time beyond 40 remain in the modeled overtime set.

A four-day, ten-hour schedule supplies 40 hours. A fifth-hour extension on one day is tagged approved-flex-over-10. If it is also the 41st weekly hour, both labels appear and overlap removal keeps the final total at one hour.

Exemptions, comp time, and records beyond the calculator

Alaska publishes minimum-wage and overtime exemptions, including employer-size and industry-specific provisions. An industry note creates a reminder only. Neither the note nor the arithmetic decides whether the Alaska Wage and Hour Act applies to a worker or business.

The state materials also require recordkeeping and describe flex-plan records. Private-employer time off in place of overtime and public-agency comp time require separate review; this calculator produces a monetary estimate and does not convert the result into permissible comp time.