🔵 Why This Matters
📋 Some states expect overtime to reflect a candidate's total hours with your company, not just the hours on one job — this setting supports that requirement.
✅ Once turned on, hours are combined automatically — nothing to track or reconcile manually across a candidate's jobs.
🔍 The Timesheets page shows exactly how each overtime total was calculated, so there's no guesswork during payroll review.
👥 Who Can Access This
Available to staffing company users and client portal users who have company settings edit access. Users without settings edit access can't view or change this toggle.
📌 Where to Find It
Go to Settings → Staffing Settings → Billing Location & Overtime.
🧭 How to Turn It On
Log into your Jombone workspace.
From the company context, go to Settings.
In the left-hand menu under Staffing Settings, select Billing Location & Overtime.
Turn on Combine Overtime Across Jobs (Same State).
Confirm in the dialog that appears — this setting is permanent and can't be reversed.
⚠️ Once confirmed, the toggle locks and reads: "Enabled — this setting is permanent and cannot be turned off."
🔍 How Overtime Shows Up on Timesheets
Open Timesheets.
Hover over the ℹ️ icon next to Total Hours for any candidate.
The tooltip shows the basis for the calculation, e.g. "Overtime is calculated on hours combined across this candidate's jobs in the same state — Weekly (max 40h/week)."
🔁 When a Candidate's Jobs Use Different Overtime Rules
If a candidate's jobs in the same state aren't all on the same overtime schedule — say, one job is Daily and another is Weekly — Jombone works out overtime under each policy separately, using that policy's own cap.
It then applies whichever policy gives the candidate the most overtime. The candidate is never shortchanged by having their hours land under the less generous rule.
If two policies would produce exactly the same amount of overtime, the one with the lower overtime cap is used.
Hybrid overtime (which checks both a daily cap and a weekly cap) usually wins when it's one of the policies involved, since it tends to catch at least as much overtime as a pure Daily or pure Weekly policy on its own.
🧠 Key Points to Remember
⚠️ Once turned on, this setting is permanent — it cannot be turned off again.
🏢 Only jobs in the same state are combined. Jobs in different states, or jobs with no state on file, are calculated separately.
⏳ Only Daily, Weekly, and Hybrid overtime schedules are combined this way. Longer cycles (biweekly, three-week, four-week) are still calculated per job.
🔁 If a candidate's jobs use different overtime schedules, the calculation that produces the most overtime for the candidate is applied.
👤 If a candidate works two jobs on the same day, both sets of hours count toward the cap — hours from the job that finishes earlier in the day count as regular time first.
⚙️ Pay and bill rates aren't affected. Each job keeps its own rate — this setting only changes how overtime hours are totaled.
🚫 Timesheets that have been manually overridden for overtime are not recalculated by this setting.
💡 Tips
💡 If you manage candidates working multiple jobs in the same state, check the Total Hours tooltip before approving timesheets — it tells you exactly why OT landed on a particular job.