Hourly to Salary Calculator
This hourly to salary calculator converts an hourly wage into an annual salary — plus the monthly, bi-weekly, weekly, and daily equivalents — using the hours per week and weeks per year you actually work. Flip it around with the "Salary → Hourly" toggle to turn an annual salary into an equivalent hourly rate, which makes it easy to compare a salaried offer against an hourly one on the same terms.
Your pay details
Enter your hourly rate and your typical work schedule to see the equivalent salary.
How the hourly-to-salary conversion works
Converting an hourly wage into a yearly figure is just a matter of multiplying your rate by how many hours you actually get paid for over the course of a year. The calculator above starts from your hourly rate, multiplies it by the hours you work each week to get a weekly figure, and then multiplies that by the number of weeks you expect to work in the year to land on your gross annual salary. From there it derives the other common pay periods — monthly, bi-weekly, weekly, and daily — so you can see your earnings expressed however your employer (or your budget) thinks about them. Switching to "Salary → Hourly" simply runs the same relationship in reverse: it divides your annual salary by your total hours for the year to back out an equivalent hourly rate.
The formulas behind each figure
Annual salary = hourly rate × hours per week × weeks per year
Hourly rate = annual salary ÷ (hours per week × weeks per year)
Monthly = annual ÷ 12 · Bi-weekly = annual ÷ 26 · Weekly = hourly rate × hours per week · Daily = weekly ÷ 5
The bi-weekly figure divides by 26 rather than 24 because a year typically contains 26 two-week pay periods (52 weeks ÷ 2), which is how most employers that pay bi-weekly actually structure payroll. The daily figure assumes a standard five-day work week, so if your schedule is compressed into fewer, longer days — say four ten-hour shifts — your real per-day earnings will look different even though your weekly and annual totals stay the same.
Why "2,080 hours" comes up so often
A widely used baseline for a full-time work year is 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, which multiplies out to 2,080 hours. Many employers, payroll systems, and online benefits estimators use that figure as a standard reference point for converting between hourly and salaried pay. It's only a convenient approximation, though — if you work fewer hours per week, take unpaid time off, or work more weeks than 52 allows for, your real annual hours will differ. That's exactly why this calculator lets you adjust both the hours-per-week and weeks-per-year inputs rather than locking them to the standard baseline.
Worked examples — $25/hour and a $60,000 salary
Suppose you earn $25 an hour, work 40 hours a week, and expect to work all 52 weeks of the year. Your weekly pay is $25 × 40 = $1,000, and your annual salary is $1,000 × 52 = $52,000. Spread across the year that works out to roughly $4,333.33 a month ($52,000 ÷ 12), $2,000 every two weeks ($52,000 ÷ 26), $1,000 a week, and $200 a day over a five-day week ($1,000 ÷ 5) — for a total of 2,080 hours worked across the year.
Now run the conversion the other way. A $60,000 salary at the same 40-hours-a-week, 52-weeks-a-year schedule comes to 40 × 52 = 2,080 hours for the year, so the equivalent hourly rate is $60,000 ÷ 2,080 ≈ $28.85 an hour. That's a handy way to sanity-check whether a salaried offer actually pays more per hour than an hourly offer you're weighing it against — try plugging your own numbers into the calculator above to see how the two roles compare once they're expressed in the same terms.
What this calculator doesn't account for
This is a simplified, gross (pre-tax) estimate — real-world pay is shaped by a lot more than a single hourly rate multiplied out across the year. A few things to keep in mind:
- Taxes and deductions — the figures shown are gross amounts before federal, state, and local income tax, payroll tax, retirement contributions, and benefits premiums are subtracted. Your actual take-home pay will be meaningfully lower; for that picture, use a dedicated take-home pay or paycheck estimate alongside this tool.
- Overtime — this calculator assumes every hour is paid at your stated rate with no time-and-a-half (or other) premium. If you regularly work overtime that's paid at a higher rate, your real annual earnings will run higher than the number shown here.
- Unpaid time off and variable schedules — weeks you don't get paid for (unpaid leave, gaps between contracts, seasonal layoffs) reduce your real annual total. Lower the "weeks worked per year" field to model that, rather than assuming a full 52 weeks.
- Bonuses, commissions, and benefits — none of these are included, even though they can make up a meaningful share of total compensation for some roles.
Treat the output as a quick, apples-to-apples way to compare pay expressed in different units — not as a forecast of what will actually land in your bank account.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I convert an hourly wage to an annual salary?
- Multiply your hourly rate by the number of hours you work per week, then multiply that by the number of weeks you work per year. For a typical full-time schedule of 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, that is hourly rate × 40 × 52 — for example, $25/hour comes to $52,000 a year. This calculator does that multiplication for you and also breaks the result into monthly, bi-weekly, weekly, and daily equivalents.
- How do I convert a salary back into an hourly rate?
- Divide the annual salary by the total number of hours you work in a year, which is your hours per week multiplied by your weeks worked per year. A $60,000 salary at 40 hours a week for 52 weeks works out to $60,000 ÷ 2,080 ≈ $28.85 per hour. Switch this calculator to "Salary → Hourly" and enter your salary, hours per week, and weeks per year to get the equivalent rate instantly.
- Why does this calculator use 2,080 hours as a baseline?
- A common rule of thumb for full-time work is 40 hours a week for 52 weeks a year, which multiplies out to 2,080 hours — a figure many employers, payroll systems, and benefits calculators use as the standard full-time-year baseline. It is only a convenient reference point, though, not a guarantee of how many hours any individual actually works.
- What if I take unpaid time off during the year?
- Unpaid time off reduces the number of weeks you are actually paid for, which lowers your real annual earnings even if your hourly rate stays the same. To model that, lower the "weeks worked per year" field below 52 — for example, two unpaid weeks off would mean entering 50 instead of 52 — and the calculator will recompute your annual figure using the smaller number of paid weeks.
- Is the annual salary shown here the same as my take-home pay?
- No. This calculator reports a gross, pre-tax annual figure based purely on the hours and weeks you enter — it does not subtract income tax, payroll tax, retirement contributions, or other deductions. Your actual take-home pay will be lower once those are applied, so use a dedicated paycheck or take-home pay estimate for the after-tax picture.
- Does this calculator account for overtime pay?
- No. It assumes every hour you enter is paid at your stated hourly rate, with no time-and-a-half or other overtime premium. If you regularly work overtime hours that are paid at 1.5× (or more) your base rate, your real annual earnings will be higher than the figure shown here — you would need to add that extra premium on top separately.
- Can I use this calculator for a part-time job?
- Yes. Enter your actual hourly rate along with the number of hours you typically work each week and the number of weeks you expect to work over the year — there is nothing in the math that assumes a full-time schedule. The annual, monthly, and weekly figures will simply scale down to match a part-time workload.
- How can I compare a salaried job offer with an hourly job offer?
- Convert both offers into the same unit so they are directly comparable. Switch to "Salary → Hourly" to see what a salaried offer works out to per hour at the hours you would actually work, or use "Hourly → Salary" to see what an hourly offer would add up to over a full year — then weigh the gross figures alongside differences in benefits, paid time off, and job stability.
- Why are the monthly and bi-weekly figures different from "annual ÷ 12" and "annual ÷ 24"?
- Most employers run payroll on a fixed schedule rather than splitting the year into perfectly even chunks. This calculator divides the annual figure by 12 for a monthly estimate and by 26 for a bi-weekly estimate, since a year typically contains 26 bi-weekly pay periods (52 weeks ÷ 2) rather than 24. That is why the bi-weekly number is not simply half of the monthly number.
- What assumptions does the daily figure use?
- The daily equivalent assumes a standard five-day work week, so it divides your weekly earnings (hourly rate × hours per week) by five. If you actually work a different number of days each week — say four ten-hour days — the real per-day amount you earn will differ from the figure shown here, even though your weekly and annual totals stay the same.