Bahrain overtime calculator 2026

Normal working hours in Bahrain: 48 actual hours a week, and 8 hours a day unless otherwise agreed, up to 10 hours at most; 6 hours a day or 36 a week for Muslims during Ramadan. Overtime is paid at 125% of the hourly wage by day, 150% at night and 250% on the weekly rest day. The hourly wage is worked out on the total salary (basic plus allowances). Example: 20 daytime overtime hours on a basic salary of 800 and a total salary of 1,080 Bahraini dinars come to 113 Bahraini dinars.

Article 54 calculates the increase on the "wage due" to the worker, and in Article 1 the wage includes the basic wage and its supplements of increments and allowances, so the total wage is used. The law does not set a divisor for the hourly wage.

Actual working hours may not exceed 10 hours a day, and the span from the start to the end of work may not exceed 11 hours a day (Article 53). The law sets no annual cap.

In the law, night is the period from 7 pm to 7 am (Article 1, clause 12). The 250% rate for rest days and holidays includes the day's own wage, and the worker may choose another day off instead. The law does not define a month as a number of days (Article 3 only refers to the Gregorian calendar), so the law gives no number of days for the hourly wage divisor; a divisor of 30 is the common practice but is not written in the law. Using the total wage as the basis for overtime is an inference from the definition of wage, and some rulings may read the text as referring to the basic wage.