About 5 minutes
Spread your monthly authorized hours across a day-by-day schedule and see weekly totals before you submit.
Example week
An illustration of one week, 45 hours in all. Your own schedule comes from your authorized hours.
About 3 minutes
Enter the hours you actually worked each day and your county rate to see straight-time pay, overtime and your estimated gross for the pay period.
Choose a county to see an estimate for the week.
About 2 minutes
See your weekly maximum, your average daily target and when your hours could run short before the month ends.
About 2 minutes
Compare the 195 and 283 hour monthly maximums, which the county's assessment sets, and see the pay estimate at your county rate.
About 5 minutes
Answer 8 plain-English questions to see how your situation lines up with the factors California counties weigh for Protective Supervision, and what to do next. Educational only: it does not decide eligibility.
About 1 minute to find your dates
See every IHSS pay period, timesheet due date and estimated pay date for the full fiscal year.
Times are rounded estimates for a first try, not measured results.
New to Protective Supervision? Start with the Protective Supervision guide, then read the requirements and the 195 vs 283 hours explainer.
See what changes in 2027 for your county: the hourly rate, overtime, SDI and take-home, month by month. An estimate. Open the 2027 pay estimate.
Make a free day-by-day planning sheet for the month, split into the two pay periods with weekly totals, and print it or save it as a PDF. It is a planning sheet, not an official form. Open the Timesheet Generator.
Every county's IHSS pay rate, with effective dates and how each compares with the state minimum wage, is on the pay rates by county page, with a free CSV download.
Six tools, and the one you want depends on whether you are planning hours you haven't worked yet or pricing hours you already have.
| If you want to… | Use | What you need |
|---|---|---|
| Turn monthly authorized hours into a day-by-day schedule | IHSS Planner | Monthly authorized hours, days off |
| Price a pay period you've already worked | IHSS Paycheck Calculator | Hours per day, your county rate |
| Check a weekly maximum and spot the end-of-month trap | Hours & Compliance Calculator | Monthly authorized hours |
| Compare the 195 and 283 hour monthly maximums set by the county's assessment | 195 vs 283 Hours Calculator | Current hours, county rate |
| See how your situation lines up with Protective Supervision factors | PS Readiness Estimator | 8 plain-English answers |
| Look up pay periods, deadlines and estimated paydays | 2026–27 IHSS Pay Calendar | Nothing |
“IHSS timesheet calculator” usually means one of two different jobs, and they need different tools.
If you are asking what hours should I put on my timesheet, that is the IHSS Planner. You give it the hours a recipient is authorized for this month and the days you are not working, and it produces a day-by-day schedule that shows your weekly totals and where overtime falls. For a printable version of one month, split into the two pay periods, use the IHSS Timesheet Generator.
If you are asking what will this timesheet pay me, that is the IHSS Paycheck Calculator. You enter the hours you actually worked each day, pick your county, and it separates straight time from overtime across each Sunday–Saturday workweek and totals the gross.
The Hours & Compliance Calculator sits between the two: it converts a monthly authorization into a weekly maximum and an average daily target, which is what you need when you are trying to work out whether a pace is sustainable for a whole month.
They are planning and information tools. None of them submits a timesheet. Actual hours go through the IHSS Electronic Services Portal at etimesheets.ihss.ca.gov, or by phone through the IHSS Telephone Timesheet System (TTS), and you are not paid until your recipient approves the timesheet.
They produce estimates from what you type. Figures are gross — before taxes, deductions and union dues — and your county IHSS office and your official timesheet remain the authority on what you are owed. The Protective Supervision estimator in particular is educational: it shows how your answers line up with the factors counties weigh, and it does not give an eligibility verdict. No tool here decides anything about your case.
These tools are not affiliated with CDSS or any California county agency.
Every tool runs entirely in your browser. Your hours, rates and answers are not written to storage and not sent to a server, there is no account, and closing the tab clears everything. The site records anonymous usage events — which tool was opened and your county — carrying no hours, no pay figures, no names and no email.
Two numbers make every tool more useful. The first is your monthly authorized hours, which appear on your Notice of Action (NOA). The second is your county hourly rate — pick your county in any calculator and the rate fills in, or look it up on the county pay rate pages. Rates are set county by county and each carries its own effective date, so the figure on your county's page is the one to use rather than a neighbour's.
You will also be asked which pay period you mean. IHSS pays twice a month: the 1st through the 15th, then the 16th through the end of the month. Overtime, though, is counted by Sunday–Saturday workweek, and a workweek can run across that boundary — which is why several of these tools ask about the days either side of it.
Work backwards from the question you actually have.
If the question is “am I about to go over something?”, start with the Hours & Compliance Calculator — one number in, a weekly maximum and a daily target out. If it is “what will this pay?”, go straight to the Paycheck Calculator. If it is “when is this due?”, the pay calendar lists every period, deadline and estimated payday for the fiscal year in one printable page. And if you want the whole month mapped out rather than one answer, that is the planner.
Last verified: October 17, 2026
