Hourly to Salary Calculator

How to use the hourly to salary calculator

Enter an hourly rate, the hours you work a week, and the weeks you work a year, and the calculator turns it into a yearly, monthly, and weekly figure. Flip the mode to Salary → Hourly and it runs the math the other way, dividing an annual salary back down to an hourly rate. The defaults — $25.00 an hour, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year — are the standard full-time setup, but every input is editable so you can match your own schedule.

These are gross figures. Nothing here is taken out for income tax, payroll deductions like Social Security and Medicare, health insurance, or retirement contributions, so your take-home pay will be lower than the numbers shown. Treat the result as the headline number on an offer or a job posting — the “before anything comes out” amount — not the money that lands in your account. How much lower depends on your tax situation, which this tool deliberately doesn’t guess at.

The reason 40 × 52 matters is that it equals 2,080 hours, the standard work year baked into most salary-to-hourly conversions you’ll see quoted. When a posting says a $60,000.00 salary “works out to about $28.85 an hour,” it’s dividing by 2,080. Keeping the defaults gives you that same apples-to-apples number, which makes it easy to compare an hourly job offer against a salaried one on the same footing.

Unpaid time off is where the standard math quietly breaks. A salaried worker who takes two unpaid weeks is really working 50 weeks, not 52 — so their true hourly rate is higher than a naive salary ÷ 2,080 suggests, because the same pay is spread over fewer hours. To model that, lower the weeks/year input: drop it to 50 and the calculator divides the salary across 2,000 hours instead, revealing what each worked hour is actually worth. The same trick handles extra paid holidays, sabbaticals, or any year that isn’t a clean 52 weeks.

So use Hourly → Salary to see what a wage adds up to over a year, and Salary → Hourly to pressure-test a salary against an hourly alternative. Adjust hours per week for part-time or overtime-heavy schedules, and adjust weeks per year for unpaid leave, and the conversion stays honest to how you actually work rather than to a textbook 2,080.

The formula

Converting between an hourly wage and an annual salary is just multiplication and division around your hours and weeks:

hourly → salary:  annual = rate × hours/week × weeks/year
monthly = annual ÷ 12,   weekly = rate × hours/week
salary → hourly:  rate = salary ÷ (hours/week × weeks/year)

Worked example with the defaults: $25.00 an hour at 40 hours a week × 52 weeks is $25.00 × 40 × 52 = $52,000.00 a year, which is $52,000.00 ÷ 12 = $4,333.33 a month and $25.00 × 40 = $1,000.00 a week. Going the other way, a $60,000.00 salary ÷ 2,080 hours (40 × 52) is $28.85 an hour.

All of these are gross — taxes, payroll deductions, and benefits are not subtracted, so take-home is lower. And because the divisor is hours/week × weeks/year, dropping the weeks to model unpaid time off raises the true hourly rate: spreading $60,000.00 over 2,000 hours instead of 2,080 works out higher per hour.

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