---
title: "Pay Period Hours Tracker for Pay Estimates | HoursKit"
description: "Organise hours around the weekly, fortnightly, twice-monthly, or monthly pay cadence that matters to each job."
canonical: https://hourskit.com/en-GB/features/pay-period-tracker/
language: "en-GB"
---

# Track work in the same window as payday

A calendar week can be handy, but it is not always the period your pay follows\. When work runs from the middle of one month into the next, or a client pays on a different schedule, adding dates by hand invites mistakes\. HoursKit groups shifts around the pay period you choose so the window on screen matches the one that matters\.

## Choose the rhythm that fits the job

Set a weekly, fortnightly, twice\-monthly, or monthly pay schedule and anchor it to the right date\. Each job can keep its own schedule when an employer pays every two weeks while freelance work follows a monthly cycle\. The current pay period then has a defined beginning and end, even when it crosses calendar months\.

## See every shift that belongs in the window

A pay\-period view gathers the completed work, hours, and estimated earnings that fall inside the selected range\. Open individual entries to check a break, change a time, or confirm the job they belong to\. That makes the period a working space for catching a missed shift before it becomes a question on payday\. It also prevents the first few days of a new period from being mixed into the last few days of the previous one\.

## Keep a job's rules in the same window

Rates, currency, overtime settings, special\-day rules, and paid status stay attached to the relevant work, so you can see why the period total looks the way it does\. Regular pay and a separate contract remain distinct without requiring separate apps or duplicated tracking\.

## Avoid the end\-of\-cycle scramble

As the period closes, the shifts, paid status, and estimate are already gathered in one place\. You can check the days at the boundary before the next window starts\. If you later need a timesheet for an invoice or personal archive, its scope is already defined by the pay period you have been following\. That keeps the close of a busy cycle from becoming a separate sorting task\.

## Features
- [Overtime Tracker and Double Time Calculator App](https://hourskit.com/en-GB/features/overtime-double-time/) — Keep daily and weekly overtime, double time, job\-specific thresholds, and estimated pay connected to the shifts that create them\.
- [Pay Summary Dashboard for Hours Worked](https://hourskit.com/en-GB/features/pay-summary-dashboard/) — See recorded gross pay to date, projected gross pay, overtime, paid and unpaid shifts, job totals, and current pay\-period progress\.
- [Weekend and Public Holiday Pay Rate Tracker](https://hourskit.com/en-GB/features/weekend-holiday-rates/) — Keep weekend and public holiday rate assumptions with the jobs and shifts they affect for a more complete pay estimate\.
- [Hourly Pay, Overtime, and Wage Calculator App](https://hourskit.com/en-GB/features/pay-estimates/) — Turn recorded shifts into a more complete pay estimate with rates, breaks, overtime, additions, deductions, and rounding choices\.
- [Night Shift Differential Pay Tracker](https://hourskit.com/en-GB/features/night-shift-differential/) — Track late\-hour work, night differentials, and estimated pay for overnight shifts in HoursKit\.
- [Multi\-Currency Hours Tracker for Different Jobs](https://hourskit.com/en-GB/features/multi-currency-pay-tracker/) — Keep each job's currency beside its hours, rate, and estimates when your work crosses currencies\.
- [Active Shift Tracker with Pause and Resume](https://hourskit.com/en-GB/features/active-shift-tracker/) — Keep today’s shift visible, pause for a break, and clock out with the hours and work details captured in one place\.
- [Timesheet App With PDF and XLSX Exports](https://hourskit.com/en-GB/features/timesheet-reports/) — Turn tracked shifts into PDF or XLSX timesheets shaped for a client, a pay period, or your own files\.

## Workflows
- [Track a Shift From Clock\-In to Pay Review](https://hourskit.com/en-GB/workflows/track-shifts-and-pay/) — Keep hours, breaks, pay rules, corrections, pay\-period totals, and shareable PDF or XLSX timesheets connected in one personal work record\.

## Track your hours on iPhone and iPad
- [Download HoursKit for Pay Period Hours Tracker for Pay Estimates](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758804427?l=en-GB&utm_source=hourskit.com&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=feature_detail&utm_content=inline&utm_term=en-GB&ct=feature_detail-pay_period_tracker)