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Did they pay you for the whole shift?
Put in when you clocked in and out. This works out what the shift should have paid — including the two things payroll gets wrong most often: overtime figured on your base rate instead of your real one, and the meal break they deducted whether or not you got it.
The two things payroll gets wrong
Overtime on your base rate instead of your real one
Under the FLSA, overtime is figured on your regular rate — and the regular rate includes your shift differentials, not just your base. The Department of Labor uses nurses as its own example: an RN paid $22 an hour plus a $2 night differential, whose overtime is paid at time-and-a-half of $22, is not being paid in compliance.
Source: DOL Fact Sheet #54 — The Health Care Industry and Calculating Overtime Pay
The half hour that comes off whether you ate or not
Most hospital timekeeping deducts the meal break automatically. If you worked through it, those minutes were hours worked. In California the employer also owes one extra hour of pay at the regular rate for each workday a meal period was missed, late, short or interrupted — and the California Supreme Court has held that this is wages, so it belongs on your wage statement.
Sources: California DIR — meal periods · DOL Fact Sheet #54
The 8/80 rule, if your hospital uses it
Hospitals are allowed to use a fixed fourteen-day period instead of a forty-hour week. Then overtime starts after 8 hours in a day or 80 hours in the two weeks, whichever comes first. It only applies if there was an agreement with you before the work, and your employer cannot use both systems on the same person.
Source: DOL Fact Sheet #54, section 7(j) of the FLSA
What this is not
This is arithmetic and links to the rules, not legal advice and not your actual paycheck. Union contracts often say more than the law does, states differ, and your employer may count things differently. If the number here and the number on your stub disagree, that is a question for your manager, your steward or your state labour office — with this breakdown in your hand.
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