The quick check divides gross wages by paid hours and compares the result with Saskatchewan minimum wage for the date worked. It updates as you type.
The detailed check adds a qualified overtime estimate for one workday or a full workweek. Its extra questions determine which standard rules it can use.
Minimum wage for the date worked
For each day, the calculator multiplies your hours by the minimum-wage rate for that date. It compares that amount with the wages you entered, before deductions. Overtime is checked separately.
| Effective from | Minimum per hour |
|---|---|
| 2022-10-01 | $13.00 |
| 2023-10-01 | $14.00 |
| 2024-10-01 | $15.00 |
| 2025-10-01 | $15.35 |
| 2026-10-01 | $15.70 |
The rates were checked on Nov 11, 2026. The latest listed rate is used for later dates, up to 2027-09-30. A rate could change before then; confirm the original source for newer work.
Overtime
Overtime is estimated only after you confirm that you are a covered employee and the standard rules apply. The calculation uses the daily threshold you selected and a 40-hour workweek, or 32 hours in a public-holiday week. Overtime is paid at 1.5 times the hourly rate used.
Hours already counted as daily overtime are not counted a second time as weekly overtime. The calculator adds only the additional weekly overtime.
When you enter a known hourly rate before overtime, the calculator uses that rate or the minimum wage, whichever is higher. Without an agreed hourly rate, it uses minimum wage. This may be less than your contractual entitlement.
Day rates
An all-in day rate does not tell the calculator what your ordinary hourly rate was. Do not divide it by all hours worked to fill in the hourly-rate field. Check the agreement and the province’s day-rate guidance, or ask Employment Standards.
Past jobs
The minimum-wage table covers past dates. The overtime estimate uses standard rules checked on Nov 11, 2026, not a full history of earlier laws, permits or agreements. Have older overtime claims checked against the rules that applied at the time.
Amounts and situations not covered
The calculator does not work out vacation pay, public-holiday pay, minimum reporting-for-duty pay, deductions, meal penalties, turnaround premiums, expenses or additional union and contract terms. It does not estimate overtime for work on a public holiday or a special arrangement.
It also cannot decide whether you are an employee, whether an exemption applies, or whether travel, waiting or a break counts as paid work.
Entering hours
Include time you worked or had to stay at your employer’s disposal. Exclude a meal only when it was genuinely unpaid time away from work duties.
Enter totals for your employer’s defined workdays and seven-day workweek. Split calls, changing start times and shifts crossing a holiday or wage-rate change need separate review.
Decimal hours are rounded to the nearest minute. Money is kept in cents, and each day’s calculated pay is rounded once to the nearest cent.
Reading a difference
The minimum-wage shortfall and the difference against the overtime estimate are two comparisons of the same payment. Do not add them together. For a workweek, shortfalls are added by day; extra pay on another day is not used to cancel them.
Time cards and agreed premiums
The time-card tool records calls, meals, wrap and pay separately. Any meal penalties or overtime terms entered there describe the agreement you supplied; they are not an automatic Saskatchewan payment schedule.
Saving your result
The CSV contains your entries, assumptions, daily calculations and the version of the rules used. Keep it with your call sheets, agreement and pay statements. Saving it does not file a complaint. Ask Employment Standards or your union about any deadline.
The calculator has not had an independent Saskatchewan legal or payroll review. A below-minimum result identifies a pay concern to check. A result above minimum wage does not confirm all overtime, holiday pay or contractual amounts were paid.
Calculation rules: SK-2026-11-11-v2