Guides

Plain-English explanations, with worked examples, of the sums behind your working week.

Who these guides are for

Anyone who wants to check their own numbers: employees keeping an eye on overtime, people starting a job partway through the year, freelancers filling in timesheets. Each guide works through the calculation by hand with real numbers, so you can follow it with a pen and paper, and links to the official rules it relies on. Rules differ between countries and contracts, so the guides show the method and point you to where the rules for you are written down. For a quick answer, the free tools do the same sums for you.