C.F.R. » Title 29 » CHAPTER V—WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR › SUBCHAPTER B—STATEMENTS OF GENERAL POLICY OR INTERPRETATION NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO REGULATIONS › PART 778—OVERTIME COMPENSATION › Subpart B—The Overtime Pay Requirements

29 C.F.R. § 778.104

Each workweek stands alone

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The Act takes a single workweek as its standard and does not permit averaging of hours over 2 or more weeks. Thus, if an employee works 30 hours one week and 50 hours the next, he must receive overtime compensation for the overtime hours worked beyond the applicable maximum in the second week, even though the average number of hours worked in the 2 weeks is 40. This is true regardless of whether the employee works on a standard or swing-shift schedule and regardless of whether he is paid on a daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly or other basis. The rule is also applicable to pieceworkers and employees paid on a commission basis. It is therefore necessary to determine the hours worked and the compensation earned by pieceworkers and commission employees on a weekly basis.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 46 cases (13 in the last 5 years), 1978–2026 · leading case: Lupien v. City of Marlborough
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Lupien v. City of Marlborough (2004) ca1 · cites it 4× “See 29 C.F.R. § 778.104 (“The [FLSA] takes a single workweek as its standard and does not permit averaging of hours over 2 or more weeks.”
City of Oakland v. Hassey (2008) calctapp · cites it 3× “§ 207 (a)(1)), and that for this purpose, each workweek stands alone ( 29 C.F.R. § 778.104 (2007)). In other words, an employee who works 30 hours during one week but 50 hours the next must be paid overtime compensation for the overtime hours worked during the second week, even…”
Johnson v. Wave Comm GR LLC (2014) nynd · cites it 3× “29 C.F.R. § 778.104 ; (each workweek stands alone); see also Owopetu I, 2011 WL 883703 , at *9 (citing Viciedo v.”
Beauperthuy v. 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. (2011) cand · cites it 2× “29 C.F.R. § 778.104 . Thus, “it is ... necessary to determine the hours worked and the compensation earned by .”
Ronald L. Howard, Scott R. Kincaid, Donald M. Loftus v. City of Springfield, Illinois (2001) ca7 “For instance, 29 C.F.R. § 778.104 provides that an employer may not average the number of hours worked over two weeks in order to avoid paying overtime.”
Alexis M. Herman, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Fabri-Centers of America, Inc. (2002) ca6 “103 (directing employers to pay overtime due on a weekly basis); 29 C.F.R. § 778.104 *590 (stating that an employer cannot average the number of hours worked over two weeks in order to avoid paying overtime); 29 C.”
Giguere v. Port Resources Inc. (2019) ca1 “" 29 C.F.R. § 778.104 . From this we conclude that the workweek the employer has chosen is the workweek the employer has chosen.”
Carmack v. Park Cities Healthcare, LLC (2018) txnd “Pittman , 2013 WL 12139092 , at *6 (citing 29 C.F.R. § 778.104 ; Owopetu v. Nationwide CATV Auditing Servs.”
Chin v. Tile Shop, LLC (2014) mnd “Plaintiff relies on 29 C.F.R. § 778.104 , which states that the FLSA “takes a single workweek as its standard and does not permit averaging of hours over 2 or more weeks.”
Takacs v. AG Edwards and Sons, Inc. (2006) casd “*1114 Plaintiffs also cite to 29 C.F.R. § 778.104 , whose title is “Each workweek stands alone.”
Secretary of Labor v. Daylight Dairy Products, Inc. (1985) ca1 “See 29 C.F.R. § 778.104 . In this case, moreover, the district court determined that no manager in the category at issue met the 80-hour requirement more than 76 percent of the time.”
City of Sacramento v. Public Employees Retirement System (1991) calctapp “( 29 C.F.R. § 778.104 .) Firefighters and law enforcement personnel, however, are allowed to balance their hours of work over the entire work period.”
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