What Colorado rule version does this page model?

The current version object is COMPS Order #40 with the 2026 PAY CALC context, effective February 1, 2026 and reviewed August 9, 2026.

Are daily and consecutive overtime the same?

No. Daily minutes are grouped by the defined workday; consecutive minutes follow an uninterrupted work run regardless of that boundary.

Can one minute count as both daily and weekly overtime?

It can retain both trigger labels, but the union places it in the final overtime pay bucket only once.

Does the category selector decide an exemption?

No. It adds an applicability warning because the general model does not implement or decide category-specific exceptions.

Does Colorado official mode calculate double time?

No general double-time rule was implemented from the reviewed current sources. The modeled general triggers use a 1.5 multiplier.

COMPS Order #40 minute model

Colorado Overtime Calculator

Enter real shifts to model the current general Colorado weekly, workday, and consecutive-hours triggers, preserve every trigger label, and count each overtime minute only once.

Model a Colorado seven-day schedule

The official-rule mode uses versioned COMPS Order #40 thresholds. Category selection adds limitations only; it never decides coverage or exemption status.

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

Category / exception reminder Use a separate custom policy scenarioWhen checked, custom thresholds replace the official-rule estimate and are labeled separately. Custom daily threshold Custom consecutive threshold Custom weekly threshold Custom multiplier

Colorado 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.

Why a federal-only weekly split misses Colorado triggers

A weekly-only calculator asks which minutes occur after 40 in a fixed workweek. Current Colorado guidance for the general covered scenario also addresses work after 12 hours in a workday and after 12 consecutive hours, with time-and-a-half and a calculation designed to avoid paying the same hour twice. The Colorado overtime calculator evaluates all three sets.

COMPS Order #40 is listed by Colorado DLSS as effective February 1, 2026. The tool keeps its thresholds, multiplier, source URLs, effective date, and review date in one version object rather than scattering rule text through the page.

Workday hours and consecutive hours answer different questions

The workday trigger accumulates compensable minutes assigned to a user-set 24-hour workday, even when separate shifts occur inside it. The consecutive trigger follows an uninterrupted minute run without relying on the workday boundary. A shift can therefore reach one trigger, both, or neither.

A duration-only unpaid break is deducted from the interval tail. When exact break timing can change whether work is consecutive, split the entry around the break. Overnight and daylight-saving elapsed minutes are resolved in America/Denver or another selected IANA zone.

Union of Colorado overtime minute sets

Every final segment retains daily-over-12, consecutive-over-12, and weekly-over-40 labels that apply. The pay bucket uses the highest implemented multiplier once. No Colorado double-time bucket is added because the reviewed general sources support the 1.5x triggers implemented here, not a general double-time rule.

Multiple-rate rows estimate a weighted regular rate from entered straight-time compensation and included earnings. They do not assign the entered schedule minute-by-minute to a job or decide which compensation belongs in the regular rate.

dailySet = minutes after 12 in each workday
consecutiveSet = minutes after 12 in each uninterrupted run
weeklySet = minutes after 40 in the fixed workweek
finalOT = dailySet ∪ consecutiveSet ∪ weeklySet
overlapRemoved = sizes of trigger sets - size of finalOT

Schedule example: one hour with two explanations

A continuous 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. shift contains thirteen compensable hours before any break. Its final hour is above both the 12-hour workday threshold and the 12-consecutive-hour threshold. The result shows 60 final overtime minutes, two trigger labels, and 60 overlap-removed minutes—not two overtime hours.

If earlier shifts in the same fixed workweek have already accumulated 40 hours, weekly-over-40 can join those labels. The final pay bucket still contains the minute once.

Coverage, exemptions, and industry limits

COMPS coverage and exemptions, agricultural provisions, transportation rules, healthcare arrangements, local minimum wages, contracts, and more protective policies can change a real result. Category selection on this page only raises an unsupported-category warning; it does not classify the worker.

Custom policy mode is visibly separate from the official-rule estimate. Use it to test a company threshold, not to rewrite or describe Colorado law. Review the linked current COMPS, PAY CALC, and INFO materials for the event date before relying on a calculation.