PayTimeCard

How to fill in the card?

Type times however you normally would. 9, 9:00, 9am, 0900 and 09:00 all mean the same thing, and a shift that ends earlier than it starts is read as running past midnight — in at 10 PM and out at 6 AM is eight hours, not minus sixteen. Put unpaid breaks in the break column in minutes. A thirty-minute lunch is 30. Paid breaks should be left out entirely, because they stay on the clock.

Hours and minutes, or decimal hours?

Payroll systems almost always want decimal hours: 7 hours 45 minutes is 7.75, not 7.45. Getting that wrong is the single most common timesheet error, and it costs an employee eighteen minutes of pay every time it happens on a shift like that one. The calculator shows both. Use hours and minutes to sanity-check the card against what people actually worked, and the decimal figure when typing into payroll software.