How to count your pay on rotating shifts and night shifts

One night shift, hour by hour

Example: $22 an hour, 22:00 to 06:00, with an unpaid break from 02:00 to 02:30. That's 7.5 paid hours.

The count has to carry on past midnight to reach $165, not reset to zero. Work one more hour after clock-out as ×1.5 overtime and you add $33, for $198.

Enter rotating shifts as an order

Say your rotation is day, day, night, night, off, off: a 6-day cycle that repeats no matter the weekday. Give each shift its start and end time. Off days add nothing, and night shifts count past midnight until clock-out.

On a monthly salary, your pay is divided by the hours actually on that month's schedule. A month with more shifts has a slightly lower hourly value and a month with fewer has a higher one. The monthly total stays the same.

Set it up in Coindle

• In Settings → Work schedule, choose Rotating shifts and tap the circles in Rotation order to set day, evening, night and off days
• Under Shift times, set start and end for day, evening and night to the minute. A shift like 22:00–06:00 runs past midnight as it should
• Add your one unpaid break; it pauses during that window
• Mark paid leave or unpaid days off on the calendar
• Working past your shift? Tap Start overtime and pick ×1.25 to ×2.5. Only time outside your schedule counts

FAQ

My shift ends after midnight. Does that work?

Yes. Enter it as, say, 22:00–06:00 and Coindle keeps counting past midnight until clock-out. A break in the small hours is taken out of that same shift.

Does it add a night premium automatically?

No automatic premium is added to scheduled hours. Extra time outside your schedule can be added as overtime with the multiplier you choose. Check your contract and payslip for your actual rates.

I work a lot of overtime. Will it double count?

No. Overtime is counted only outside your schedule, so regular hours are never paid twice.