Nevada Overtime Rules: The Two-Track Daily/Weekly Test

Overtime is 1.5× the regular rate, and the trigger depends on the employee's pay rate:

• Earning less than 1.5× the minimum wage (under $18.00/hr at a $12 minimum): overtime after 8 hours in a 24-hour period AND after 40 hours in a week — unless by mutual agreement the employee works a scheduled 10 hours per day for 4 calendar days within the scheduled week of work (NRS 608.018(1)(b)).
• Earning 1.5× the minimum wage or more (at or above $18.00/hr): overtime after 40 hours in a week only — no daily overtime.

Unlike California, Nevada has no 2× double-time and no special seventh-consecutive-day premium. Overtime is always 1.5×.

NRS 608.018(3) lists exemptions (executive, administrative, and professional employees, outside buyers, and others). Nevada's list does not track the federal FLSA's — it exempts outside buyers, not outside salespersons — and the federal FLSA white-collar tests also apply. Note Nevada has no separate 2×-minimum exempt-salary threshold like California's. NRS 608.018(3) only turns off subsections 1 and 2 of this Nevada statute — it does not touch federal overtime under 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1). A business under the $250,000 gross-sales exemption in (3)(l), for example, can still owe federal overtime to any employee individually covered by the FLSA, since federal individual coverage reaches any employee engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, regardless of the employer's size.

• Forgetting daily overtime for lower-wage employees;
• Not re-checking the $18.00 cutoff when the minimum wage changes;
• Treating all salaried staff as exempt without meeting the duties test.