Overtime pay: 125% and 150%
Israeli overtime is a ladder rather than a single rate, and the rung an hour lands on depends on how long the day already was, whether it was a night, and whether the break was paid. Each of those moves the threshold, which is why two shifts of identical length can cost different amounts.
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The first block is 125%, everything beyond is 150%
Once a day passes its ordinary length, the first two extra hours are paid at 125% and every hour after that at 150%. These are statutory minimums, not defaults to be negotiated downwards. The ladder is calculated per day, so a short Monday does not subsidise a long Tuesday.
A regular day tops out at nine hours
The ordinary working day runs to nine hours before overtime begins, on the standard arrangement. That number is a ceiling rather than a target: a workplace on a shorter week may reach overtime sooner, and a collective agreement may set a lower threshold. It is worth writing your own threshold down, because payroll software that assumes the maximum will quietly underpay a workplace that agreed to less.
Night shifts reach overtime an hour earlier
Work in the night window gets a shorter ordinary day — seven hours rather than nine — so the overtime ladder starts sooner. The window is defined by the hours worked, not by the day the shift is filed under, so a shift that starts before midnight and ends after it is measured across both.
An unpaid break moves the starting line
A shift longer than six hours carries a break of at least 45 minutes, of which 30 must be continuous. Where that break is unpaid it is not worked time, so it does not count towards the overtime threshold. The practical effect surprises people: deducting a 45-minute break can pull an hour back out of the 125% block, which shows up in pay without showing up in the hours.
The calculation stops at 200%
Premiums stack — a rest day starts at 150% and its overtime rolls to 175% and 200% — but the statutory calculation does not go past 200%. That ceiling is why the longest, most awkward shifts do not keep escalating indefinitely.
How Noviq applies this
Noviq splits each shift into segments before applying rates, so a single shift can carry ordinary, night and rest-day hours at once. The overtime ladder is applied per segment on the net hours after any unpaid break, the workspace sets its own thresholds and rates, and a legal-floor check flags any value configured below the statutory minimum without blocking the save.