---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 779.18"
title: "29"
number: "779.18"
heading: "Regular rate."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/779.18"
---

# §779.18. Regular rate.


As explained in the interpretative bulletin on overtime compensation, [part 778](/cfr/29/part778.md) of this chapter, employees subject to the overtime pay provisions of the Act must generally receive for their overtime work in any workweek as provided in the Act not less than one and one-half times their regular rates of pay. Section 7(e) of the Act defines “regular rate” in the following language:


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 1-19, 52 Stat. 1060, as amended; 75 Stat. 65; Sec. 29(B), Pub. L. 93-259, 88 Stat. 55; 29 U.S.C. 201-219.

### Source

Source: 35 FR 5856, Apr. 9, 1970, unless otherwise noted.