What does your hourly wage actually equal as a salary?
Gross pay arithmetic should not require a spreadsheet. Enter your hourly rate,
hours per week, and weeks per year — or reverse it from an annual salary —
and see the equivalent annual, monthly, weekly, and daily gross pay.
Every formula is shown. This calculator does not estimate taxes,
withholding, or deductions of any kind.
Hourly ↔ annual conversion·Monthly & weekly breakdowns·Gross pay only — no tax guesswork
Gross pay only
This calculator returns gross pay — earnings before taxes, Social Security,
Medicare, state and local withholding, health insurance premiums, retirement
contributions, or any other deductions. It is a pure arithmetic conversion
between hourly rate, hours, weeks, and equivalent pay periods.
It does not estimate net (take-home) pay. See the FAQ for why.
Choose a direction, enter your figures, and results update as you type. Adjust hours and weeks to match your actual schedule — the defaults are the standard full-time baseline.
Conversion direction
Switch directions to go from a salary offer back to an effective hourly rate.
Your pay & schedule
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Your gross pay per hour of work, before any deductions.
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Your gross annual salary before taxes and deductions.
hrs
Standard full-time is 40. Adjust for part-time, overtime, or a compressed schedule.
wks
52 is the full calendar year. Lower this if you work a fixed contract or take unpaid time off.
Gross annual salary:
Annual (gross)
Monthly (gross)
Weekly (gross)
Daily (gross)
The formulas, in full
Nothing here is a black box. These are the exact calculations the tool runs —
the same arithmetic you could do with a pencil. The only inputs are the numbers
you supply; the only judgment calls are the schedule assumptions you set.
Common hourly rates converted to gross annual salary on the standard
full-time baseline (40 hours per week, 52 weeks). Adjust in the calculator
above for any schedule that differs.
Hourly rate
Annual (40 h × 52 wk)
Monthly (÷ 12)
Weekly (× 40)
Daily (÷ 5)
$15.00 / hr
$31,200
$2,600.00
$600.00
$120.00
$20.00 / hr
$41,600
$3,466.67
$800.00
$160.00
$25.00 / hr
$52,000
$4,333.33
$1,000.00
$200.00
$30.00 / hr
$62,400
$5,200.00
$1,200.00
$240.00
$50.00 / hr
$104,000
$8,666.67
$2,000.00
$400.00
All figures are gross pay. Annual = hourly × 2,080 hours (40 × 52).
Monthly = annual ÷ 12. Figures do not account for overtime, unpaid leave,
taxes, withholding, or any deduction. Rounding may cause minor display differences
versus the live calculator above.
Why the hourly-to-salary conversion matters
Job postings quote pay in inconsistent units — some hourly, some annual — and comparing
them requires the same base. The conversion also surfaces hidden cost differences
between a salaried role with unlimited hours and an hourly role with a firm 40-hour cap.
A salary offer and an hourly offer are not directly comparable until they share a unit
A $72,000 annual offer and a $38/hr contractor offer look similar on the surface. But at 40 h/wk and 52 weeks, $38/hr = $79,040/yr — nearly $7,000 more before you account for who pays benefits and payroll taxes. The reverse is also common: a salaried role that implicitly expects 50-hour weeks yields a lower effective hourly rate than the posted salary suggests. Converting to a common unit (annual gross, or hourly gross) makes the comparison honest.
The 2,080-hour year is a convention, not a law — and it often overestimates paid hours
The standard 40 × 52 = 2,080-hour baseline assumes full pay for every calendar week. Hourly workers who take unpaid vacation, sick leave without pay, or work a fixed-term contract earn less than the annual equivalent suggests. If you work 50 paid weeks instead of 52, your effective annual gross drops from $52,000 to $50,000 at $25/hr. The calculator lets you adjust weeks precisely for this reason — the default is the payroll convention, not necessarily your reality.
Monthly pay from an annual salary does not map cleanly to a time-card month
Annual ÷ 12 is a consistent division, not a count of actual workdays per month. February has fewer workdays than March; some months in a biweekly payroll cycle yield three paychecks rather than two. The monthly figure in this calculator is the annual gross divided by 12 — a useful planning anchor, not a prediction of what any specific month's paycheck will show. Your actual paystub depends on your employer's pay schedule and any month-specific variables.
How to use this calculator accurately
Two inputs do most of the work: your pay amount and your actual schedule.
Getting those right makes the result genuinely useful for comparison or planning.
Use the rate from your offer letter or pay stub, not a rounded estimate
A small difference in the hourly rate compounds significantly at scale. $24.50/hr and $25.00/hr differ by about $1,040 annually at 40 hours and 52 weeks. If your offer letter states a precise figure, enter it exactly.
Enter your actual scheduled hours, not the assumed full-time baseline
Part-time, reduced, or compressed schedules change the result meaningfully. A 32-hour-per-week role at $28/hr yields $46,592/yr, not $58,240/yr (which assumes 40 hours). If your schedule varies week to week, use your average.
Lower the weeks input if you have unpaid time off
Salaried employees typically receive a fixed annual salary regardless of vacation (PTO is included). Hourly workers without paid leave are only paid for weeks actually worked — if you take two weeks unpaid, set weeks to 50, not 52.
Use the reverse mode to evaluate a salaried offer's effective hourly rate
Switch to "Annual salary → hourly" and enter the offered salary with your expected weekly hours. A $90,000 role where 50-hour weeks are the norm yields $34.62/hr, not the $43.27/hr it appears to be on a 40-hour week. This is often the most revealing use of the reverse calculation.
Treat this number as the anchor for a gross comparison, not a take-home prediction
The annual figure from this calculator is what you'd put on a loan application, compare between two offers, or use as the input for a retirement contribution calculation. Estimating actual take-home requires knowing your filing status, state, and benefits elections — use a payroll provider or tax professional for that step.
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The vocabulary that shows up in job postings, offer letters, and payroll documents — defined plainly.
Gross pay
Your total earnings before any deductions — taxes, insurance, retirement contributions, or garnishments. Gross pay is what this calculator returns. It is the number on job postings and offer letters, and the basis for most benefit and tax calculations.
Net pay (take-home pay)
What reaches your bank account after all deductions. The gap between gross and net depends on your federal and state tax brackets, filing status, pre-tax benefit elections, and any voluntary or mandatory deductions. For a middle-income earner, net is often 65–80% of gross — but the exact figure varies too much to estimate without your specific inputs.
Annual salary
A fixed gross pay amount stated per year. Salaried employees receive this total divided into pay periods (weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, or monthly) regardless of exact hours worked, as long as the employer's exempt classification applies under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Hourly rate
Gross pay per hour of work. Hourly (non-exempt) employees are paid for every hour worked and are entitled to overtime at 1.5× their regular rate for hours beyond 40 in a workweek under FLSA. This calculator does not model the overtime premium — see the FAQ.
2,080 hours
The standard full-time annual hours figure: 40 hours/week × 52 weeks = 2,080. It is the conventional denominator used to convert between annual salaries and hourly rates in HR, benefits, and payroll contexts. Dividing any annual salary by 2,080 gives the hourly equivalent for a standard schedule.
Full-time equivalent (FTE)
A unit that normalizes different schedules to a single full-time baseline. One FTE = 2,080 hours per year (or 40 hours per week). A part-time employee at 20 hours per week is 0.5 FTE. Employers use FTE counts for budgeting, benefits eligibility thresholds, and ACA reporting.
Exempt vs non-exempt
FLSA categories that determine overtime eligibility. Non-exempt employees (most hourly workers) must receive overtime pay for hours beyond 40/week. Exempt employees (most salaried professionals above an annual salary threshold — $684/week as of 2024) are not entitled to overtime regardless of hours worked. Classification affects whether the hourly rate implied by a salary is actually bounded at 40 hours.
Paid time off (PTO)
Vacation, sick, and personal days for which employees continue to receive their regular pay. Salaried employees typically receive their full annual salary regardless of PTO taken (PTO is included in the package). Hourly employees without PTO are only paid for hours actually worked — taking time off reduces their annual gross earnings, which is why adjusting weeks-per-year matters for hourly workers.
Biweekly vs semimonthly pay
Biweekly pay is issued every two weeks — 26 pay periods per year. Semimonthly pay is issued twice per month — 24 pay periods per year. They produce different per-paycheck amounts from the same annual salary, and biweekly schedules have two months per year with three paychecks. This calculator does not model pay periods; it divides annual by 12 for monthly and by weeks-per-year for weekly.
Frequently asked
Multiply your hourly rate by your weekly hours, then multiply by your paid weeks per year: annual = hourly × hoursPerWeek × weeksPerYear. At the standard full-time schedule, that is hourly × 40 × 52. A $25/hr rate gives $25 × 40 × 52 = $52,000. Adjust the hours and weeks inputs if your schedule differs — part-time, seasonal, or contract work changes the result meaningfully. This is gross pay only; taxes and deductions are not included.
A calendar year contains 52 full weeks. Salaried employees are typically paid for all 52 because their annual amount is fixed and paid time off is included in the compensation package — they don't lose pay when they take PTO. Hourly workers without paid leave are only paid for weeks actually worked. If you take unpaid time off, lower the weeks input to your actual paid weeks. The difference between 50 and 52 weeks at $25/hr, 40 h/wk is $2,000 in gross annual pay.
Gross pay is earnings before any deductions — it is what this calculator returns. Net pay is what reaches your bank account after federal income tax withholding, Social Security (6.2%), Medicare (1.45%), state and local income taxes, any health or dental insurance premiums, retirement contributions (401k, HSA), and other deductions. The gap is often 20–35% of gross for middle-income earners, but varies significantly by state, filing status, and elections. Estimating net accurately requires those specifics — this calculator deliberately stops at gross.
Monthly pay in this calculator equals annual gross divided by 12. Annual gross is hourly × hoursPerWeek × weeksPerYear, so monthly = (hourly × hoursPerWeek × weeksPerYear) ÷ 12. At $25/hr, 40 h/wk, 52 wk: ($25 × 40 × 52) ÷ 12 = $52,000 ÷ 12 = $4,333.33. This is a consistent mathematical division, not a count of actual workdays per month — which is why some months feel off if you compare them to a time card. Biweekly payroll has two months per year with three paychecks; this calculator does not model pay schedules.
Switch the mode selector to "Annual salary → hourly." Enter your gross annual salary, then set hours per week and weeks per year to match your expected schedule. The calculator divides: hourly = annual ÷ (hoursPerWeek × weeksPerYear). A $75,000 salary at 40 h/wk and 52 wk yields $75,000 ÷ 2,080 = $36.06/hr. This is most revealing when evaluating a salaried role that implies more than 40 hours — at 50 h/wk, that same $75,000 drops to $28.85/hr effective.
2,080 is the standard full-time annual hours figure: 40 hours per week × 52 weeks. It is the denominator HR, benefits, and payroll use to translate between hourly and annual compensation. Dividing any annual salary by 2,080 gives the hourly equivalent on a standard schedule. Some calculations use 2,000 instead (50 weeks, excluding two weeks unpaid) — the calculator lets you set your own weeks to get the denominator that matches your situation.
Yes. Under the FLSA, non-exempt hourly workers earn 1.5× their regular rate for hours beyond 40 per week. This calculator multiplies your stated rate by your stated hours uniformly — it does not apply an overtime premium. If you regularly work overtime, the calculator understates your gross earnings. To approximate, calculate straight-time hours and overtime hours separately at their respective rates and add the totals. Exempt salaried employees are not entitled to overtime regardless of hours worked.
Gross pay arithmetic is deterministic — multiply three numbers. Tax calculations are not: they depend on your filing status, state and local jurisdiction, pre-tax benefit elections, retirement contributions, and rules that change year to year. A calculator that estimates net pay without those inputs produces a number that is confidently wrong for most people. Gross pay is the number on job postings, the basis for benefit comparisons, and the correct anchor for comparing two offers on a like-for-like basis. Once you have the gross figure, your employer's payroll system or a tax professional gives the authoritative net.
Common mistakes
Hourly-to-salary conversions go wrong most often when people use the wrong multiplier or compare two offers without putting them in the same units.
Using 2,000 hours instead of 2,080 for the standard annual multiplier
Annual salary = hourly rate × hours per year. The standard full-time year is 40 hours × 52 weeks = 2,080 hours. Using 2,000 (a rounded approximation) understates the annual equivalent by 3.8% — about $1,520 on a $40,000 salary. The 2,000-hour figure assumes only 50 working weeks and is only appropriate if you know the position includes two weeks of unpaid time.
Comparing a salaried offer to an hourly offer without accounting for expected hours
A $75,000 salary and a $36/hr contract look similar (36 × 2,080 = $74,880). But if the salaried role routinely expects 50-hour weeks, the effective hourly rate is $75,000 ÷ (50 × 52) = $28.85/hr — 20% lower. The comparison is only honest when both figures use the same assumed hours per week.
Treating the monthly figure as a reliable paycheck amount
Monthly = annual ÷ 12, which is an accounting division, not a paycheck schedule. On a biweekly payroll, two months per year produce three paychecks instead of two. On a semi-monthly schedule, the number of workdays in each period varies. The monthly figure from this calculator is a budgeting anchor, not a prediction of any specific paycheck.
Ignoring that gross pay and take-home pay differ substantially
All figures from a gross-to-gross conversion are pre-tax. Federal income tax, FICA (Social Security + Medicare), state income tax, and benefits deductions typically reduce gross pay by 20–35% for most workers. A $50,000 annual salary does not produce roughly $4,167/month in take-home pay — that is the gross amount, before any withholding. Plan budgets using after-tax estimates, not gross conversion results.