time and a half

noun

: payment for work (such as overtime or holiday work) at one and a half times the worker's regular wage rate

Example Sentences

If they make you work during holidays, they pay you time and a half.

We get paid 20 dollars an hour for 40 hours and time and a half for overtime.

Recent Examples on the Web

So, as is only right, RuPaul is coughing up some more of that sweet fracking money to give the queens time and a half. —Vulture, 7 Apr. 2022

Extras should be prepared for a 10-12 hour day and will receive overtime pay of time and a half. —Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2022

At that time, American agreed to pay pilots a 50% premium (time and a half) to cover reassignments. —Noah Barsky, Forbes, 11 July 2022

Farmers will have to pay time and a half to workers who work over 55 hours a week beginning in 2023. —oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2022

Nurses also earn time and a half on their base pay over 40 hours a week. —Kris Maher, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022

San Francisco sheriff’s deputies can soon get paid time and a half by private retailers to guard against shoplifting while off duty, similar to police officers, amid a push to combat retail theft in the city. —Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Dec. 2021

The union fought many years ago for workers to have that eligibility of that time and a half after eight hours. —Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021

Correctional officers make time and a half after one shift, and double time after two. —BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2021

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Word History

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

time and a half

noun

: payment of a worker (as for working overtime) at one and one half times the regular wage rate