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How Orary Calculates Your Earnings Automatically

June 15, 2026 5 min read

The whole point of Orary is that you should never do pay maths by hand again. You set up your jobs and rates once, log a shift in seconds, and the accurate earnings appear — penalty rates and all. Here’s what happens under the hood.

Set your rates once

For each job you define your base rate and your day/afternoon/night/weekend rates (and breaks). From then on, Orary knows exactly how to value any shift you log for that job.

It applies the right rate automatically

Log a Sunday evening shift and Orary applies your Sunday rate, splits hours across day/night bands if needed, subtracts unpaid breaks, and handles shifts that cross midnight — the things spreadsheets get wrong.

Live totals across days, weeks and months

Every shift rolls up into running totals and statistics, so you always know what you’ve earned this week, this month and this year — across every job in one place.

Example

You log Mon–Wed days, a Friday night and a Sunday. Orary shows the week at $930 with each shift valued correctly — no formulas, no errors, no rebuilding a sheet.

Set your rates once and never calculate pay by hand again.

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