Overtime Pay Calculator — Louisiana (2026)
Overtime in Louisiana starts with the federal FLSA floor: 1.5× your regular rate for every hour beyond 40 in a workweek. Some states add daily overtime or double-time rules on top. This calculator shows gross overtime pay and what survives federal, FICA and Louisiana taxation in 2026. Louisiana uses a flat personal income tax of 3.00% applied to taxable income after a state standard deduction of $12,500.
Louisiana Overtime Pay Calculator
Your base pay per hour.
Hours beyond 40 in the workweek.
Overtime rules that apply in Louisiana
Louisiana follows the federal weekly standard: overtime is owed after 40 hours in a workweek, with no general daily overtime requirement.
The "regular rate" is not just your base hourly wage — non-discretionary bonuses, shift differentials and commissions must be folded in before multiplying by 1.5, which raises the true overtime rate for many oil workers around New Orleans.
Is overtime taxed more in Louisiana?
No — overtime is ordinary wages. It can feel over-taxed because per-period withholding tables annualize a big check as if every week looked like that, temporarily withholding at a higher rate that you recover at filing.
The Louisiana layer applies to overtime exactly as to base pay, at rates up to 3.00%.
Exempt vs non-exempt in Louisiana
Salaried does not mean exempt. To be exempt from overtime a worker must clear both a salary threshold and a duties test; misclassification is one of the most common wage claims filed in Louisiana.
Cost of living in Louisiana sits 9% below the national average (index 91), median household income is $57,852, and a one-bedroom apartment in New Orleans rents for roughly $1,450 a month.
Local and payroll taxes Louisiana adds on top
Louisiana adds no state-mandated employee payroll deduction beyond FICA, so nothing extra is taken from your gross pay at the state level.
Louisiana has no separate city or county income tax, so the state figure above is the full sub-federal income tax you pay.
Overtime hours carry exactly the same local withholding as regular Louisiana hours; the extra pay is taxed at your marginal rates, not at a special penalty rate, even though the deduction line looks bigger.
Working across a state line from Louisiana
Louisiana has no income-tax reciprocity agreements, so if you live here and work across a state line you generally file a nonresident return in the work state and claim a credit at home to avoid double taxation.
Remote and hybrid work complicates this further: most states tax income where the work is physically performed, so a New Orleans resident spending part of the year at a client site in Texas may owe a nonresident return there. Keep a day-count log if you split time between states.
The rest of your Louisiana tax bill
Louisiana charges a 5% state sales tax, homeowners pay an average effective property tax of 0.56% of market value, and the minimum wage in force during 2026 is $7.25 an hour.
Local rates are the highest in the nation on average, pushing combined sales tax above 10%.
Income tax is only one part of a state's take. Louisiana recovers revenue through sales and property tax as well, which is why headline income tax rates alone are a poor guide to how far a salary really goes. Louisiana exempts Social Security, all state and local pensions, and up to $6,000 of other retirement income at 65+.
Louisiana vs Texas on the same salary
On a $75,000 salary, a single filer keeps about $59,718 a year in Louisiana against roughly $61,593 in Texas — a difference of $1,875, or $156 a month.
Effective combined rates are 20.4% in Louisiana and 17.9% in Texas. Set that gap against living costs: index 91 here versus 92 there, with property tax at 0.56% and 1.68% respectively.
Louisiana income tax brackets 2026 (single filer)
| Taxable income | Rate |
|---|---|
| $0 and up | 3.00% |