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title: Set Overtime Rules for a Service Location
description: "Set a service location's own overtime rules: weekly hours, 7th straight workday, holiday rate and daily steps. Hours only, never pay."
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# Set Overtime Rules for a Service Location
## Give one service location its own overtime rules, so the technicians based there are counted by that location's weekly limit, daily steps and holiday rate.
**For:** Admins and dispatchers · **Permission:** Manage technician schedules · **Time:** ~5 minutes
### Quick summary
1. Open **Settings › Company › Service Locations** and click the location.
2. Open the **Overtime Rules** tab.
3. Set the weekly limit, the 7th straight workday switch, the holiday rate and any daily steps.
4. Click **Save**.
MetaFleet tracks overtime **hours** only. It never calculates pay.
### Before you start
- You need the **Manage technician schedules** permission to save, and access to **Service Locations** in Settings to open the page. Without the permission, you can't save.
- The location must already exist. See [Create a Service Location](https://support.metafleet.ai/create-a-service-location?hsLang=en).
- Each technician needs this location set as their **Service location** on their recurring schedule. See [Give a Technician a Recurring Schedule](https://support.metafleet.ai/give-a-technician-a-recurring-schedule?hsLang=en).
### Which rules apply to a technician
1. If you have saved overtime rules on the technician's service location, those rules apply.
2. If you haven't, or the technician has no service location, the shop-wide **Default overtime rules** apply. You set those in [Set Up Technician Shifts](https://support.metafleet.ai/technician-shifts-and-scheduling?hsLang=en).
On the technician's weekly schedule, the rules follow the technician's service location.
### Step 1: Open the location's Overtime Rules tab
Go to **Settings › Company › Service Locations**. Click the location's name, then click **Overtime Rules**.
### Step 2: Review the tab
The tab opens with a weekly limit of 40 hours, both switches off and no daily steps ("No daily overtime set"). Those 40 hours are only the starting values on the form. Until you click **Save**, the location keeps using the shop-wide default. The card on the right, **Technicians assigned here**, lists the technicians who use this location. The **Summary** card repeats your rules in one line, such as "Weekly OT after 40h".
### Step 3: Set the rules
1. **Weekly overtime after:** enter the hours a technician can work in a week before overtime starts. The federal standard is 40.
2. **Overtime on a 7th straight workday:** turn it on if a technician who works all seven days should get overtime on the seventh. The first 8 hours count at 1.5×, and anything beyond at 2×. These rates are fixed.
3. **Higher overtime rate on holidays:** turn it on to record holiday hours at a higher rate. Then enter the rate next to **Count holiday hours at**, such as 1.5 or 2.
4. **Daily overtime:** click **Add overtime step** for each daily rate. In each step, enter **Overtime after** (hours per day) and **Rate** (× normal). California, for example, uses one step after 8 hours at 1.5 and a second after 12 hours at 2.
5. To drop a step, click the trash icon beside it. The tab has no reset button, so to remove every step, delete each one.
> **Wage-eligible steps.** Turn on **Only for wage-eligible techs** on a step to apply it only to technicians marked **Eligible for wage-conditional overtime** on their [recurring schedule](https://support.metafleet.ai/give-a-technician-a-recurring-schedule?hsLang=en). Other technicians skip that step.
### Step 4: Save
Click **Save**. A green "Overtime rules saved." message appears. Nothing changes until you save, and leaving the page discards edits. There is no way back to "no rules": once you save here, this location stops using the shop-wide default.
### Where you see the result
Overtime hours show in the **OT · this week** column on Technician Schedule. See [Run the Weekly Technician Schedule](https://support.metafleet.ai/run-the-weekly-technician-schedule?hsLang=en).
### Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Likely cause | Fix |
| --- | --- | --- |
| You can't save | You lack the Manage technician schedules permission | Ask an admin to grant it. |
| **Technicians assigned here** says "No technicians have this as their Home Service Location." | No technician has this location as their service location | Set the location on each technician's recurring schedule. |
| A technician still gets the shop-wide rules | The technician has no service location, or this location has no saved rules | Set their service location, then save rules here. |
| A daily step doesn't count for a technician | The step is limited to wage-eligible techs | Turn on **Eligible for wage-conditional overtime** for that technician, or turn the step's switch off. |
### FAQs
**Does MetaFleet calculate overtime pay?**
No. It tracks hours only. Multipliers here set how hours are counted.
**Do these rules change the shop-wide default?**
No. They apply only to technicians at this location.
**Can I set different rules for each location?**
Yes. Each location has its own Overtime Rules tab.
### Related articles
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