Nevada · daily overtime is a wage-tier rule
Nevada pays daily overtime only under $18.00 an hour
NRS 608.018 is not “California with the serial numbers filed off.” Subsection 1 pays 1½ times the regular wage when the employee earns less than 1½ times Nevada minimum wage and works more than 40 hours in a scheduled week or more than 8 hours in a workday. Subsection 2, for everyone at or above that threshold, is weekly 40 only. The Labor Commissioner’s Daily Overtime Bulletin posted 29 June 2026 puts minimum wage at $12.00 as of 1 July 2026, so the daily-overtime cap is $18.00. Type $17.99 and this page runs after-8. Type $18.00 and it tells you it is weekly-only, because the statute does.
What the bulletin and the statute actually say
The 2026 bulletin is the one-page version employers post: employees who earn less than $18.00 per hour are eligible for overtime at 1.5× for over 8 hours in a 24-hour period or over 40 hours in a workweek; employees who make more than that hourly rate are eligible for 1.5× only over 40 in a workweek. Ballot Question 2 ended the two-tier minimum wage as of 1 July 2024, which is why there is a single $12.00 figure behind the $18.00 cap.
The 8-hour daily trigger has one exception written into subsection (1)(b) itself: a mutual agreement to work a scheduled 10 hours per day for 4 calendar days in the week. That is the checkbox. It is not a written-form requirement in the statute text, and this page does not add one. Other carve-outs live in subsection 3 (executive/administrative/professional, motor carrier, agricultural, businesses under $250,000 gross, and the rest of the list). Those are out of scope. This calculator will not pretend a job title turned daily overtime off.
Daily and weekly premiums do not stack on the same hour. A 10-hour day at $15 is 8 regular + 2 overtime. Five of those days are 40 regular + 10 overtime, not 40 + 10 daily + 10 weekly. Six 8-hour days at $15 are 40 regular + 8 weekly overtime, because exactly 8 hours never trips the daily trigger.
In scope
- Daily after 8 when rate < $18.00 (1.5 × $12.00 min. wage)
- Weekly 40 for every rate, with no stacking on a daily-OT hour
- 4-10 mutual-agreement toggle from NRS 608.018(1)(b)
- Punch-in/out, split shifts, unpaid lunch
Out of scope
- NRS 608.018(3) exemptions (EAP, motor carrier, agricultural, small-business gross, etc.)
- Double time (Nevada has none)
- Commission-retail tests, CBAs that “provide otherwise”
- Regular-rate add-ons under the federal regs cited in subsection 2
FAQ
Who gets daily overtime after 8 hours in Nevada?
NRS 608.018(1) requires 1.5× for more than 8 hours in a workday or more than 40 in a workweek when the employee is paid less than 1.5 times the minimum wage in NRS 608.250. The Labor Commissioner’s 2026 Daily Overtime Bulletin (posted 29 June 2026) sets minimum wage at $12.00 as of 1 July 2026, so daily overtime applies under $18.00 per hour.
What if I earn $18.00 or more in Nevada?
NRS 608.018(2) then requires 1.5× only for more than 40 hours in a scheduled week of work. This page turns daily overtime off at $18.00 and above and says so on the pay ticket. That is weekly-only, the same shape as FLSA, because the statute says so — not because we fell back to federal law for lack of a source.
What is the 4-10 agreement on this page?
NRS 608.018(1)(b) drops the 8-hour daily trigger when, by mutual agreement, the employee works a scheduled 10 hours per day for 4 calendar days within a scheduled week. The checkbox turns daily overtime off. Weekly 40 still applies. Other exemptions in NRS 608.018(3) are out of scope.
Does Nevada have double time?
No. The statute is one and one-half times the regular wage rate. There is no 2× band after 12 hours and no seventh-day double time.
