Oman Overtime Calculator

At a glance

Daytime overtime

+25% (×1.25) on the basic wage

Night overtime (9 PM–5 AM)

+50% (×1.50)

Weekly rest day / official holiday

+100% (×2.00 total), or a day off in lieu

Hourly rate

Basic ÷ 30 ÷ daily hours

Law

Royal Decree 53/2023, Art. 71

How overtime pay works in Oman

The 2023 Labour Law requires your agreement before you work overtime. When you do, hours beyond your normal schedule are paid at a premium on the basic wage — allowances are not part of the overtime base. Total actual hours, including overtime, may not exceed 12 in a day.

The premium depends on timing. Daytime overtime carries a 25% supplement (125% of the hourly rate). Overtime at night — between 9 PM and 5 AM — carries a 50% supplement (150% of the hourly rate). Instead of paying, the employer may agree to give you equivalent paid time off.

Rest days and official holidays

• •Article 71 treats the weekly rest day and an official public holiday the same way: 100% of your daily basic wage in addition to the wage for the day itself — 200% of the daily wage in total.
• •Instead of the cash premium, the employer may grant a compensating day off — one day of rest for each day worked on a rest day or holiday.
• •This calculator prices rest-day and holiday hours at the full 200% rate; the day-off-in-lieu alternative is a separate choice the employer can make instead of paying cash.
• •Article 72 sets a higher floor when the work was not agreed but ordered. See the section below before accepting a 200% figure.

Public holiday overtime in Oman, and the Article 72 exception

Oman prices an official holiday the same as the weekly rest day, and both sit in Article 71: 100% of your daily basic wage on top of the wage for the day itself, which is 200% of the daily wage in total, or one compensating day off for each day worked. That is the figure this calculator uses and the one almost every guide quotes.

What almost none of them mention is that Article 71 is only half the picture. It governs overtime you agreed to. Article 72 governs overtime the employer may require without your agreement, which it may do for annual inventory and budget work, capped at 15 days a year, and in emergencies such as preventing an accident, remedying its effects or avoiding the loss of perishable goods.

When holiday or rest-day work falls under Article 72, the rate is not 200%. It is 200% of the basic wage plus the wage for the day itself, which comes to 300% of the daily wage, or two compensating days for each day worked on an official holiday. Ordinary hours ordered under Article 72 also carry more than the Article 71 rates: at least 50% by day and 75% at night, against 25% and 50%.

The practical question to ask, then, is not just which day you worked but whether you were asked or told. If your employer invoked an emergency or an inventory period and you had no realistic option to decline, Article 72 is the article that applies, and the statutory minimum is half as much again as the figure below.

One further point of Omani practice worth knowing: where a weekly rest day coincides with an official public holiday, the Ministry of Labour confirmed in February 2025 that compensation follows the public-holiday framework in Royal Decree 88/2022, and that work performed on such days is compensated under Article 72 of the Labour Law.

Oman overtime rates

Working hours and overtime limits under Oman labour law

• •Overtime generally requires the worker’s agreement under the 2023 Labour Law — it is not something an employer can simply impose.
• •Total actual hours, including overtime, must not exceed 12 in a day.
• •The overtime base is the basic wage only; allowances do not raise your hourly rate, unlike annual-leave pay, which Oman calculates on the gross wage.
• •Instead of paying the premium, the employer may agree with you to give equivalent paid time off.

How to calculate your overtime

1. 1

   Find your hourly rate

   Divide your monthly basic salary by 30, then by your daily working hours. Example: 600 ÷ 30 ÷ 8 = OMR 2.5/hour.

2. 2

   Sort your hours

   Split the extra hours into daytime and night (9 PM–5 AM), since night pays a higher premium.

3. 3

   Apply the multiplier

   Day hours × 1.25 × hourly rate; night hours × 1.50 × hourly rate.

4. 4

   Add them up

   The sum is your overtime pay for the period.

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