Reading a clock-in and clock-out pair off a schedule and turning it into a gross-pay number is what every tool on this site does. These terms set the boundaries around that: what a result is, what it is not, and what to do if the two disagree with your paycheck.
None of that makes TimeCardTools a payroll system, a timekeeping system of record, or a stand-in for your employer's own attendance records. Where a number here needs to hold up against an actual paycheck, your pay stub and your payroll department are what governs, not a figure from this site.
Every rule behind a calculator, the overtime threshold, the rounding math, the time-zone database, is listed with its source and a date on the editorial standards page, so you can check a result against the rule it is supposed to follow. We do not promise any tool matches a specific employer's rounding policy or a state's daily-overtime add-on, since those vary by state and by workplace. Found a result that does not match your own arithmetic? The contact page lists exactly what to send, and a confirmed fix gets a dated note on the page it touches rather than a quiet edit.
Every calculation runs client-side, so beyond ordinary web logs there is no server-side record of a shift, a rate, or a total anyone entered. The privacy policy covers that in more detail, and the two pages should agree with each other; flag it if you ever find a place where they do not.
Free tools trade on a simple deal: we keep the formulas sourced and current, and you confirm a number before leaning on it for a dispute with an employer, a household budget, or a scheduling decision. If a figure here turns out wrong and that costs you time or money, the party who can make it right is your own time records, your payroll department, or your state labor agency, not TimeCardTools. We carry no liability for a decision made on the strength of a calculator result.
Link to any page, quote a passage with credit, or pull figures from the 2026 work-hours dataset and its downloadable CSV for your own analysis, attributed to TimeCardTools. Republishing a whole guide or calculator page on another site is a different ask; reach out through contact first.
Google AdSense runs the display ads here, and a small number of outbound links, Amazon Associates included, pay us a commission if you buy through them at no cost to you; nobody pays to change a formula or get a favorable mention. Clicking through to another site puts you under that site's own terms. TimeCardTools is built for adults managing their own hours or schedule and is not directed at anyone under 13.
When something material changes, a new cited source, a new ad partner, a change in how corrections are handled, we update this page and the date at the top. There is no separate notice by email, since the only addresses we hold come from the contact form.