About minutestodecimal.org

This site helps hourly employees, freelancers, and small-business owners turn work time into the format their timesheet or payroll system expects. Whether you need decimal hours for a pay run, total minutes for a shift log, or a quick read of “1.75 hours” as “1h 45m”, the calculators here do it instantly, with no sign-up.

The math behind timesheets is simple: 60 minutes in an hour, divide or multiply accordingly. What makes it hard is that the formats keep shifting under your feet. Clock times are 24-hour, durations are hours-and-minutes, payroll wants decimals, and the difference between 2.30 and 2h 30m is 12 minutes of your pay. Most of the errors people make on timesheets are format errors, not arithmetic errors.

So this site is deliberately narrow. Each page does one conversion, shows the formula it used, and explains the surrounding payroll context, such as rounding rules and overtime thresholds, in the guides section. We would rather explain 8.75 clearly than offer fifty half-working widgets.

Every formula on this site is checked against the standard conventions used by US payroll systems: quarter-hour rounding landmarks, two- and four-decimal hour formats, and the 40-hour weekly overtime threshold under the FLSA. The guides that touch labor law describe how the rules generally work; they are general information, not legal advice, and state rules vary. When a reader points out an error, we fix it and credit the catch.

Where a guide cites a specific legal standard, we re-verify it against the primary source (the Department of Labor’s published guidance for the FLSA, for example) rather than repeating secondhand summaries.

The audience we write for is the person filling out the form at the end of a shift, not a payroll professional who already knows the answer. That is why every guide carries worked numbers all the way through to dollars, and why the calculators show the formula they used instead of hiding it.

Every calculator runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to a server, and we have no accounts, so there is no profile of you to leak. The site is supported by advertising, and the privacy policy explains exactly what our hosting provider and ad partners can see and what choices you have.

If a number looks wrong on any page, tell us. Small sites get accuracy right through reader feedback, and timesheet math is one area where being wrong by 12 minutes matters. The contact page has the email address; a sentence about what you expected and what you saw is all we need.