Nevada
Nevada overtime rules for field crews
Nevada's daily overtime rule is unusual: whether it applies at all depends on what each employee earns relative to minimum wage, and on whether they have agreed to four ten-hour days - so it is decided worker by worker.
What the law requires
Overtime past 8 hours in a workday only for employees earning less than one and a half times the state minimum wage; everyone else is on the weekly 40-hour rule alone.
What it means on a crew
With the minimum at $12.00 an hour from July 2026, the line is $18.00: a crew with people either side of it is owed different overtime for the same ten-hour day. A written agreement to work four ten-hour days also takes the daily rule off that worker (NRS 608.018(3)(e)).
What Punchless does
Each worker's own pay rate decides, day by day: under $18.00, overtime past 8 hours in a day and past 40 in a week; at or over it, past 40 only. Record a worker's four-tens agreement and the daily rule comes off them from the day it was signed. A worker with no rate on file is paid daily overtime until you set one - the safe direction to be wrong in.
Every rule we enforce is published with the statute behind it and the test that checks it, so this is a claim you can verify rather than take on faith.
Nevada counts a "workday" as the 24 hours from when the employee starts work (NRS 608.0126); we count hours by calendar date. A worker under the cutoff who starts earlier than the day before - 9 AM Monday, then 7 AM Tuesday - has Tuesday's first two hours counted on Tuesday, where Nevada counts them in Monday's workday. And a worker's rate has no history yet, so a raise is read back over the days before it.
If you are relying on this, ask us before you buy. We would rather lose the sale than have you find out at a hearing.
Other Nevada rules
Verified against primary sources on October 1, 2026. Statutes and wage orders change, and some of this is genuinely unsettled - re-check the source before relying on it. Punchless is not a law firm and this is not legal advice.