Horas extras in Peru 2026: the value of each extra hour at 25% and 35%
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 17 Oct 2026.In Peru the first two hours worked beyond the ordinary working day are paid with a surcharge of at least 25% of the hourly value, and every later hour with at least 35%. The hourly value is the monthly pay divided by 30 and by the hours of the day: S/ 1,300 for 8 hours gives S/ 5.42, so S/ 6.77 and S/ 7.32 an extra hour.
2026 · Rates and rules read from MTPE, guía "¿Cómo calcular las horas extras?" (D.Leg. 854, TUO D.S. 007-2002-TR, D.S. 008-2002-TR) on 17 Oct 2026; they may have changed since.
Enter the monthly salary and the hours of the working day.
Enter the overtime hours a day and the days worked with overtime.
Read the value of each extra hour and the total to be paid.
This calculator works out the pay for overtime (horas extras or sobretiempo) under Peru's working-hours law, the TUO of Legislative Decree 854, the way the Ministry of Labour's own guide does it.
The hourly value. The guide takes one day's pay as the monthly salary divided by 30 and divides it by the hours of the worker's ordinary working day. With S/ 1,300 and 8 hours that is S/ 5.42. A shorter agreed working day gives a higher hourly value, because the same day's pay is spread over fewer hours.
The surcharges. The first two overtime hours of a day carry a surcharge of at least 25% of the hourly value; every hour after that carries at least 35%. The calculator rounds the hourly value and each surcharge to the céntimo and adds them, as in the guide's example: S/ 5.42 + S/ 1.35 = S/ 6.77, and S/ 5.42 + S/ 1.90 = S/ 7.32. Less than an hour is paid in proportion.
The rest of the article, and all 6 questions about Peru Overtime Calculator (Horas Extras), are on the Peru Overtime Calculator (Horas Extras) page.
Divide the monthly salary by 30 and by the hours of your working day to get the hourly value. The first two overtime hours of each day are paid with at least 25% more, and every later hour with at least 35% more, under article 10 of the TUO of the working-hours law, D.S. 007-2002-TR.
For an 8-hour day the hourly value is S/ 1,300 / 30 / 8 = S/ 5.42. Each of the first two extra hours of a day pays S/ 5.42 + S/ 1.35 = S/ 6.77, and the third and later hours pay S/ 5.42 + S/ 1.90 = S/ 7.32, as in the Ministry of Labour's worked example.
Per day. Overtime is the time worked before or after the ordinary working day, so every day with overtime starts again with two hours at 25%. Three extra hours on each of ten days are twenty hours at 25% and ten hours at 35%, not two and twenty-eight.
Yes. The Ministry of Labour's guide says that overtime shorter than an hour is paid as the proportional part of the hourly surcharge. Thirty minutes count as half an hour: on S/ 1,300 a month and an 8-hour day, half an hour of overtime pays S/ 3.39.
Rates and rules change; check the source before you rely on a figure.
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