schedule Hourly to Salary Calculator
Convert an hourly wage into a yearly salary, or a salary back into an hourly rate, with every pay cadence in between.
Salaried roles are usually 52 paid weeks including holiday. Contractors who are only paid for time worked should lower this - two unpaid weeks means 50.
These are gross figures, before tax and deductions. To see what actually reaches your account, use the Paycheck Calculator. Monthly is annual divided by 12, not weekly times four.
Comparing an hourly rate against a salary is harder than it looks, because the two hide different assumptions. A salary usually covers 52 paid weeks including holiday; an hourly rate often pays only for hours actually worked. This converter turns any figure into every other cadence - hourly, daily, weekly, biweekly, twice-monthly, monthly and annual - and lets you set both hours per week and paid weeks per year, so a contract rate and a staff salary can be compared on the same footing.
How to use this tool
- Enter the amount you knowType your hourly rate, your salary, or whatever figure you have.
- Tell it which cadence that isPick "per hour", "per year" or anything in between from the dropdown.
- Set your hours per weekThe US full-time default is 40. Lower it for part-time work.
- Set your paid weeksSalaried roles are usually 52. Contractors paid only for time worked should reduce it - two unpaid weeks means 50.
- Read every equivalentAll cadences update at once, with your chosen one highlighted.
Why use it
- Converts in both directions, so it works whether you know your hourly rate or your salary.
- Accounts for part-time hours and unpaid weeks instead of assuming a flat 40 x 52.
- Calculates monthly as annual divided by 12, not weekly times four - a mistake that under-reports pay by around 8%.
- Shows total hours and working days a year, useful when weighing a contract against a salaried role.
Common uses
- Comparing a job offer quoted as a salary against your current hourly rate.
- Setting a freelance or contract rate that matches a target annual income.
- Working out what a part-time role pays annually.
- Checking whether a raise expressed per hour is worth what you expected per year.
- Budgeting when your pay arrives every two weeks but your bills are monthly.
Tips for better results
- Contractors generally need a higher hourly rate than the naive conversion suggests, because they cover their own holiday, sick leave, health cover and self-employment tax.
- Every-two-weeks (26 paychecks) and twice-a-month (24 paychecks) are different schedules and produce different per-paycheck amounts from the same salary.
- For a quick mental estimate, an hourly rate doubled and read as thousands is roughly the annual salary: $25/hr is about $50,000.
- These are gross figures. Use the Paycheck Calculator to see what actually reaches your account.
Mistakes to avoid
- Treating a month as four weeks. There are about 4.33, so weekly x 4 understates annual pay significantly.
- Assuming 2,080 hours applies to everyone. Part-time, seasonal and shift work all differ.
- Comparing a contractor rate to a salary without adjusting for benefits and unpaid time off.
- Forgetting that overtime, bonuses and shift differentials sit outside a straight rate conversion.
Frequently asked questions
Multiply your hourly rate by hours worked per week, then by paid weeks per year. At 40 hours over 52 weeks that is 2,080 hours, so $25 an hour is $52,000 a year. Reduce the weeks if you are not paid for time off.
A standard US full-time year is 2,080 hours - 40 hours across 52 weeks. If you take two unpaid weeks it drops to 2,000, and part-time schedules scale down proportionally.
About $41,600 a year at 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, before tax. At 35 hours it is roughly $36,400. Enter your own hours above for an exact figure.
Divide the annual salary by the total hours you work in a year. A $60,000 salary at 2,080 hours is about $28.85 an hour. If you regularly work more than your contracted hours, your real hourly rate is lower.
Because an average month is about 4.33 weeks, not 4. Multiplying by four leaves out roughly four weeks of pay a year. This calculator divides the annual figure by 12, which is correct.
A common starting point is to take the equivalent salary and add 25% to 50% to cover unpaid holiday, sick leave, health insurance, self-employment tax and periods without work. The right premium depends on your field and how steady the work is.
These are gross figures, before any tax or deductions. For take-home pay, use our Paycheck Calculator, which applies federal brackets, Social Security and Medicare.
Biweekly means every two weeks, giving 26 paychecks a year. Semimonthly means twice a month, giving 24 slightly larger ones. Two months a year have three biweekly paydays, which is why biweekly budgets feel uneven.
Not as a separate rate. Enter your average total hours including overtime for an approximate figure, but remember overtime is typically paid at 1.5x, so a straight conversion will understate it.
Yes. Choose "per day" as the cadence. A day is treated as eight hours scaled by your hours-per-week setting, and a week as five working days.
No. Everything runs in your browser and nothing you type is sent anywhere or stored.
The arithmetic works anywhere - it is currency-agnostic. Only the default 40-hour, 52-week assumptions are US-shaped, and both are editable.