Time Card Calculator
Time card calculator for weekly or biweekly pay: add your shifts and lunch breaks, then print a dated card or save a CSV.
Free. No sign-up. Runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
What a time card is and how this one works
A time card is a record of when you started and stopped work each day, with the breaks you did not get paid for. The totals tell payroll how many hours to pay. This page builds one for a week or for two weeks, with a date on each row, the weekly subtotals, and a print layout with a place for your name and signatures.
It uses the same calculation as the Timesheet Calculator, so the same entries give the same total in both places. The difference is the card: dated rows, an employee name, a lunch shortcut that fills every day at once, and a printout laid out like a paper time card instead of a result panel.
Three steps
- Pick weekly or biweekly, and enter the first day of the period if you want dates on the rows.
- Fill in clock in and clock out for each day. Type the lunch length once in the lunch box to fill every day that has times.
- Read the totals, then print the card or download the CSV.
Worked example
Two weeks, Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM with a 60 minute lunch, is 8:00 a day and 40:00 a week. If the second week ends early, with Friday running 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM, that week is 36:00 and the card totals 76:00, which is 76.00 in decimal hours. No overtime applies because neither workweek goes over 40:00. Use Fill example to load it.
Overtime is still counted week by week on a biweekly card. If one week is 45:00 and the other is 35:00, the card shows 5:00 of overtime in the first week even though the two weeks add up to 80:00.
Questions people ask
What is a time card calculator?
It is a tool that adds up the hours on a time card for you. You enter when you clocked in, when you clocked out and how long your unpaid break was, and it works out the daily hours, the weekly subtotals and the period total. This one also prints a time card.
How do I add up hours on a time card?
For each day, subtract the clock in from the clock out and take off the unpaid lunch. 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM is 9:00, and a 60 minute lunch leaves 8:00. Add the days. Five of those days make 40:00. If your payroll wants decimal hours, divide the leftover minutes by 60, so 40:15 is 40.25. The Hours to Decimal Calculator does the conversion both ways.
How do I print a time card?
Once you have a total, press Print time card under the result. Your browser's print dialog opens with a time card layout: your name, the dates, one line per day, the totals and signature lines. Choose Save as PDF in the print dialog if you want a file instead of paper.
How do I handle a lunch break on a time card?
Type the lunch length in minutes into the lunch box at the top to fill every day that has times, or set the break on each row. An unpaid lunch comes off the day. If you are paid for lunch, leave the break empty so the time stays in your hours.
Is overtime figured per week or per card?
Per workweek. A biweekly card holds two separate workweeks, and each one is checked against the weekly limit on its own. Federal overtime does not average hours across weeks. See the Department of Labor's Fact Sheet #23.
About this calculator
I built this card on the same calculation engine as the homepage, so a time card total always matches the Timesheet Calculator for the same entries. I tested it with the biweekly 76:00 case (40:00 plus 36:00) and with a 45:00 week followed by a 35:00 week, which gives 5:00 of overtime in the first week and none in the second.
Overtime is figured per workweek, following the Department of Labor's Fact Sheet #23. The employee name you type goes onto the printout only. It is not stored and not sent.
I last checked the sources linked on this page on October 8, 2026.
This calculator gives estimates for checking and planning pay. It is not legal, tax or payroll advice. Your employer's pay policy, your contract and the law where you work decide what you are owed. Overtime rules apply to non-exempt employees. This tool does not decide whether you are exempt.