Overtime Rules in Denmark

Not every threshold on this page is fixed by national law in Denmark. The figures above are what the statute sets; where one is marked as not set nationally, the point at which overtime begins, or the rate it is paid at, comes from the employment contract, the collective agreement or sector rules instead.

An empty figure is information rather than an omission. Read the source linked below before applying any of these numbers to a specific contract in Denmark.

The maximum working week in Denmark is 48 hours, including overtime. Averaging arrangements over a reference period are common and may change how the limit applies to any single week.

Rest-break rules apply in Denmark, but their current terms could not be confirmed against the source cited below, so no figure is printed here. Check retsinformation.dk and the agreement that covers the job. Either way, unpaid breaks are excluded from paid hours, which is how the hours calculator treats the break field by default.

Select Denmark in the hours calculator or the timesheet and its thresholds are applied to your week automatically. Because no statutory multiplier applies in Denmark, overtime hours are listed on their own line at the plain hourly rate, and the premium your contract or collective agreement sets is yours to enter.