Salary to Hourly Calculator

1. Enter either your annual salary or your hourly wage.
2. Leave the one you want to find blank.
3. Set your hours per week and weeks per year (defaults are 40 and 52).
4. Read the result, plus your weekly and monthly pay.

Here is what each result means:

The salary to hourly conversion turns a yearly wage into the equivalent pay for a single hour of work, or the other way round. It lets you compare a salaried job offer with an hourly one on the same footing, which is hard to do when one is quoted per year and the other per hour.

The link between the two is the number of hours you work in a year. Multiply your hours per week by the weeks you work per year to get annual hours, then divide the salary by that number to get the hourly wage. A 52,000 salary at 40 hours a week for 52 weeks is 52,000 divided by 2,080 hours, which is 25 an hour.

The conversion uses gross pay, the amount before tax and deductions. It also assumes a steady schedule, so it does not include overtime, bonuses, or unpaid time off. Those can make real take-home pay differ, but the gross conversion is the fair starting point for comparing jobs.

It divides the salary by your annual working hours, or multiplies the hourly wage by them.

1. Multiply hours per week by weeks per year to get annual hours.
2. Divide the salary by annual hours to get the hourly wage.
3. Or multiply the hourly wage by annual hours to get the salary.

For budgeting your pay, see the percentage calculator and the finance hub.

You earn 52,000 a year, working 40 hours a week for 52 weeks.

Calculation: annual hours are 40 times 52, which is 2,080. hourly = 52000 / 2080 = 25 an hour. Your weekly pay is 1,000 and your monthly pay is about 4,333, before tax.

The hours you work each year set the conversion.

Full-time work is often quoted as 2,080 hours a year, but taking unpaid weeks off lowers the total and raises the hourly figure a paid salary implies. Set your real hours and weeks for an accurate result.

Converting to the same basis reveals the real difference.

An hourly job can pay more per extra hour through overtime, while a salary gives a steady, predictable income. Converting both to an hourly rate, then thinking about the hours you actually expect to work, is the fairest way to compare two offers.

The Salary

A higher salary gives a higher hourly rate for the same hours, in direct proportion.

Hours per Week

More hours per week for the same salary lowers the implied hourly rate.

Weeks per Year

Fewer paid weeks for the same salary raises the hourly rate, since the pay is spread over less time.

Comparing Job Offers

Put a salary and an hourly wage on the same basis to compare them.

Freelance Rates

Turn a target salary into the hourly rate you need to charge.

Budgeting

See your weekly and monthly gross pay from either a salary or an hourly wage.

1. Using Take-home Pay

This uses gross pay before tax. Comparing gross to net gives the wrong picture.

2. Assuming 52 Paid Weeks

If you take unpaid leave, use the weeks you actually work, which raises the hourly figure.

3. Ignoring Overtime

The conversion assumes a steady schedule and does not add overtime or bonuses.

4. Wrong Hours per Week

Use your contracted paid hours, not the hours you happen to be at work.

5. Forgetting Benefits

Salaried roles often include benefits that a raw hourly comparison misses.

The conversion is exact for the hours you enter; it uses gross pay and a steady schedule.

Divide the annual salary by the hours you work in a year, which is your hours per week times weeks per year. A 52,000 salary at 2,080 hours is 25 an hour.

Multiply the hourly wage by the hours you work in a year. At 25 an hour for 2,080 hours, the salary is 52,000 a year before tax.

Full-time is often 2,080 hours, from 40 hours a week for 52 weeks. Taking two unpaid weeks off gives 2,000 hours; part-time schedules are lower.

Gross, meaning before tax and deductions. Take-home pay is lower and depends on your tax situation, which this calculator does not model.

No. It assumes a steady schedule at one rate. Overtime, bonuses and other extras are not included in the conversion.

Use your contracted, paid hours, commonly 40 or 37.5 for full-time. For a fair result, use the hours you are actually paid for.

Weekly pay is the annual salary divided by the weeks you work; monthly pay is the annual salary divided by 12. This calculator shows both.

Divide your target annual income by the billable hours you expect to work in a year to find the hourly rate you need to charge.

No. The calculation runs in your browser and nothing you enter is stored or sent anywhere, unless you choose Save, which keeps the result only on this device.

• Salary (Wikipedia).
• Wage (Wikipedia).
• Working time (Wikipedia).