Enter your pay, rota, and leave once. Every calculator uses the same numbers.
This sets honest notes and presets for your kind of schedule. It never changes the math.
Enhancements are added on top of your base rate, the way your payslip does it.
Percentage uplifts are how some pay systems price nights and weekends (the NHS Agenda for Change is one): each kind of shift adds a percentage of your base rate instead of a flat amount.
If your schedule varies, enter your average week. Results will be a close estimate, not an exact count.
Honest scope: this app is built for staff on a set weekly schedule. If you are PRN with no set week, or a travel nurse on contract with no PTO bank, it does not model your situation honestly yet.
Agenda for Change: overtime starts past 37.5 hours in a week, at time and a half; part-timers get plain time up to 37.5. The 8 and 80 rule is a US hospital rule.
The day your hospital starts the work week. It decides which hours count together for overtime, and how stacking lines up. If Sunday is effectively your Monday, that is Sunday.
Some states add daily overtime rules on top of these (for example California, Alaska, Colorado). If yours does, your real pickup pay may be higher than shown.
Stacking means working your week's shifts on fewer days, so a short stretch off can cost little or no PTO.
Some employers grant the whole year's leave at the start of the leave year instead of accruing it hour by hour (NHS annual leave works this way).
Enter your annual leave only. If your trust keeps a separate sick leave record, leave those hours out.
Some hospitals stop your accrual once your bank hits a maximum. Enter that maximum and forecasts stop growing there. Leave at 0 if there is no cap.
Some trusts take bank holiday hours out of your leave entitlement. If yours does, count the bank holidays charged per year.
Time off you have already promised yourself before this stretch. It comes off the top so the answer stays honest.
Optional. Leave both at 0 if your trust pays no bank shift bonus.
Replay the intro, walk the guided setup again, or look at the worked example.
Pick the first and last day off. Weekends, accrual and how your shifts are arranged are already in the math.
Both dates are required. Enter your first and last day off, then tap Calculate.
Shortfall means hours you do not have yet when your time off starts.
Does this look off for your trust's rules? Tell us: feedback@nursepto.com
Weeks run Sunday to Saturday, the way schedules are posted.
| Week of | Days off | Leave shifts | Leave hrs |
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Set a dollar goal and a deadline. A pickup means an extra shift, sometimes called an open shift. We work out what one is worth to you, overtime and bonuses included, before tax.
Pickup availability depends on your unit, and extra shifts can be scarce. If pickups are hard to get, the set-aside figure on the Time Off tab may be the realistic path.
Rest guardrail: pickups are always optional. Skip any pace that would push you past your hospital's hour limits or leave you short on rest.
| Bank shifts | Earned | Ahead / behind |
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The day your stretch starts can change its leave cost.
Only if your unit allows it. Your manager's approval governs.
Example: 3 shifts a week. Your schedule is in Try a stretch below.
Starts Wednesday - work the edges: 0 Leave shifts
Starts Sunday - straight through: 3 Leave shifts
Same days off. Different arrangement. Very different cost.
| Days off | Last day off | Leave shifts | Leave hrs |
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