KRAFT LAW & CONSULTANCY
Overtime and Holiday Pay
See what is owed for your work.
Calculate, by wage period, the estimated additional gross amount for overtime, weekly rest day work and work on national and public holidays.
This version is for monthly-paid work under the standard 45-hour week. Take the hours from your timesheets; entitlement is not worked out from clock-in and clock-out records. Add a new period each time your wage changes.
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The headings, the payments made and the breakdown will appear here.
Which rules are used?
Under the standard 45-hour pattern, the hourly wage is taken as the basic gross monthly wage / 225 and the daily wage as the monthly wage / 30. Overtime hours carry a 50% premium. If normal holiday pay has been paid, an additional 1.5 days’ pay is calculated for a full day worked on the weekly rest day, and an additional 1 day’s pay for each national or public holiday worked. Enter 0.5 days for a statutory half-day holiday; short work on a full holiday is not converted automatically to an hourly rate.
How are hours and special situations treated?
Work out separately the actual work above 45 hours in each week. Under the Regulation, less than half an hour counts as half an hour and more than half an hour counts as one hour; apply this on the work records and enter the total in multiples of 0.5 hours. The 11-hour daily limit and the special limits on night work may need separate assessment. The 270 hours a year is a limit on how much overtime may be worked; it is not applied as a ceiling that cuts the claim automatically.
If the contractual week is under 45 hours, the statutory premium for hours beyond the contractual week, up to 45 hours, is 25%. Because the hourly wage and the contract need to be checked separately, this version does not calculate this working pattern. Time off in lieu of overtime pay can be given at the employee’s request and under the statutory conditions; ordinary leave is not set off automatically.
The approved deferral of the weekly rest day at accommodation establishments holding a tourism operation certificate, introduced by the 2025 amendment, overlaps between weekly rest days and public holidays, partial work on the weekly rest day, enhanced contractual rights and work governed by special legislation are outside this standard calculation. Wage claims are generally subject to a five-year limitation period; periods are not excluded automatically without examining the grounds for interruption and suspension.
Sources: Labour Act No. 4857, arts. 32, 41, 46–50, 63, 68–69 (in Turkish) · Overtime Regulation (in Turkish) · Ministry of Labour and Social Security explanations (in Turkish) · Grand National Assembly explanation on weekly rest day pay (in Turkish) · 2025 tourism amendment (in Turkish).
Sources reviewed: 7 November 2026. This tool gives a preliminary arithmetical calculation based on the amounts of work you enter, without reviewing documents or the legal characterisation. Amounts are rounded to the nearest 0.01 TRY for each heading and period.