Facts:  client earned $15,804 in overtime

2025 AGI: $182,823

Filing status: single

I am using ProSeries Basic, fully updated this morning.

Overtime is not reflected separately in the W-2, no separate 1099 was issued to reflect the OT earned. Client was instructed by company’s HR to print our client’s annual compensation summary, which contains the total OT paid to client in 2025.

I entered manually the $15,804 on schedule 1-A, line14b

The maximum OT client can claim is limited to $12.500 because of the filing status and gross income.  For this discussion ignore for now the ceiling on the OT.

ISSUE: Common sense and math tells me that one third of $15,804 is $5,294 which would be the value of the premium paid for client’s overtime.

According to Proseries, Schedule 1-A, line21,  “Qualified overtime compensation deduction” client can deduct $9,300.

QUESTION: how did the program arrived at the $9,300 deduction?  It appears to me that this amount is wrong.

OTHER: I contacted Proseries help line. I was old “the system calculated the amount correctly.” And that client should request an amended W-2 – this response was disappointing.

I look forward to your comments, and in particularly from someone a Level 2 customer service.