# Workweek

> Workweek — A fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 hours — seven consecutive 24-hour periods — that overtime is measured in. Hours are never averaged across workweeks: 30 hours one week and 50 the next owe ten hours of overtime.

Source: https://lopifi.com/glossary/workweek
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**What is workweek?** In accounting, workweek means a fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 hours — seven consecutive 24-hour periods — that overtime is measured in. Hours are never averaged across workweeks: 30 hours one week and 50 the next owe ten hours of overtime.

## Words this system refuses for it

- pay period

- **Category:** Payroll
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/11-lexicon)
- **Related:** period