Calculate elapsed hours between two clock times, allowing for breaks.
Subtracting start from end gives the span; a shift that crosses midnight wraps by adding 24 hours. Unpaid breaks come off the total, and the decimal-hours figure is what payroll systems expect rather than hours and minutes. Payroll rounding disputes almost always trace back to breaks and decimal conversion, and an overnight shift computed naively comes out negative.
Elapsed Time
Hours = (end − start) − breaks, summed across days
Hours = (end − start) − breaks, summed across days Subtracting start from end gives the span; a shift that crosses midnight wraps by adding 24 hours. Unpaid breaks come off the total, and the decimal-hours figure is what payroll systems expect rather than hours and minutes.
Payroll rounding disputes almost always trace back to breaks and decimal conversion, and an overnight shift computed naively comes out negative.
This calculator takes 4 inputs: Start time (24-hour clock), End time (24-hour clock), Unpaid break, Number of days. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.