Hourly to Salary Calculator

1. How to convert hourly pay to salary

Converting hourly pay to a salary is a single multiplication. You take the rate you earn for one hour, multiply it by the number of hours you work in a typical week, and then multiply that weekly figure by the number of weeks you are paid across the year. The result is your gross annual pay — what you earn before any tax or deduction is applied.

Most people meet this calculation through a shortcut rather than the full formula. A standard full-time schedule of 40 hours a week across all 52 weeks of the year comes to 40 × 52 = 2,080 hours. That is where the familiar 2,080-hour figure comes from, and it is why you often see the rule of thumb written as hourly wage × 2,080 ≈ annual salary. At $25 an hour, $25 × 2,080 = $52,000, which is exactly what the longer formula produces.

The shortcut is only correct for that one schedule. If you work 30 hours a week, or you are only paid for 48 weeks because of unpaid time away, the 2,080-hour assumption overstates your annual pay — sometimes by many thousands of dollars. That is why the hourly to salary calculator above asks for hours per week and weeks per year separately instead of hard-coding 2,080. Whatever you enter is what the math uses, and the assumption line under the results restates the schedule being applied so there is never any ambiguity about where a figure came from.

One more distinction is worth making early. An hourly wage and a salary are not just two ways of writing the same number; they are usually two different pay structures. Hourly pay generally rises and falls with the hours you actually work, while a salary is a fixed annual amount divided across pay periods. Converting between them tells you what the two are worth on a comparable annual basis, which is what you need when you are weighing an hourly job against a salaried offer. It does not mean the two arrangements carry identical risk, benefits or guaranteed hours.

2. Hourly to annual salary conversion table

The table below converts common hourly rates into weekly, annual and average monthly gross pay. Every row assumes 40 hours per week and 52 weeks per year, which is 2,080 paid hours. These are gross figures before taxes and deductions, not take-home pay.

The pattern is linear, which makes rough mental math easy: every $5 an hour is worth $10,400 a year at this schedule, and every $1 an hour is worth $2,080. If your own rate is not listed, enter it in the calculator at the top of the page rather than interpolating, especially if your hours or weeks differ from the assumption used here.

3. How to convert salary to hourly pay

The conversion also runs in the opposite direction. To turn an annual salary into an hourly rate, divide the salary by the number of hours you actually work in a year.

Switching the tool above to Salary → Hourly mode means it also works as a salary to hourly calculator, using the same schedule fields. This direction is most useful when you are comparing a salaried role against hourly contract or part-time work, or when you want to know what an extra hour of unpaid work effectively costs you.

Be honest about the hours you enter. A salaried job advertised as 40 hours a week that regularly runs to 50 has a real hourly rate well below its headline figure: $60,000 across 50 hours a week for 52 weeks is 2,600 hours and about $23.08 an hour, not $28.85. The arithmetic is only as good as the schedule you feed it.

4. How monthly, biweekly and weekly pay are calculated

Once the annual figure is known, the shorter periods are simple divisions of it.

Biweekly means every two weeks. Across 52 weeks that produces 26 pay periods a year, which is why the annual total is divided by 26. Semimonthly is a different schedule that is easy to confuse with it: semimonthly means twice a month, usually on fixed dates such as the 15th and the last day, giving 24 pay periods a year. The paychecks are therefore slightly larger than biweekly ones for the same salary, and they do not line up with week boundaries. If your employer pays semimonthly, divide the annual figure by 24 rather than using the biweekly result shown above.

The monthly number is an average, not a literal paycheck. Months are unequal in length, and biweekly pay cycles drift against the calendar, so two months each year contain three biweekly paychecks instead of two. Over a full year the totals reconcile, but any single month can look higher or lower than the average shown.

The daily figure divides weekly pay by five, on the assumption of a standard five-day workweek. If you work four longer days or six shorter ones, that per-day figure will not match your reality even though the weekly and annual totals are still correct.

5. What if you don't work 40 hours a week?

Plenty of work does not fit a 40-hour, 52-week pattern: part-time schedules, seasonal roles, school-year contracts, shift work with long weeks, and freelance arrangements where paid weeks are not guaranteed. Forcing any of those into the 2,080-hour shortcut produces a number that is simply wrong, which is why the calculator accepts your own hours per week and weeks per year.

Two examples are worth spelling out. At $25 an hour and 30 hours a week for 52 weeks, the annual total is $25 × 30 × 52 = $39,000, and the weekly figure is $750. At $25 an hour and 40 hours a week but only 50 paid weeks, the annual total is $25 × 40 × 50 = $50,000, while the weekly figure stays at $1,000 because the shortfall is in weeks, not hours. Both sit well below the $52,000 the 2,080-hour shortcut would have suggested.

When you are deciding what to enter for weeks per year, the question is how many weeks you are actually paid for. Paid vacation is still paid, so it counts toward 52. Unpaid leave, seasonal gaps and periods between contracts do not. Salaried roles with paid time off are normally entered as 52 weeks, because the salary already covers the whole year.

6. Does hourly to salary include overtime?

No. This calculator converts the hourly rate and schedule you enter. It does not automatically apply an overtime premium to hours above any threshold, and it does not decide whether you are entitled to one.

Overtime rules and overtime rates can vary depending on employment classification, employer policies, jurisdiction and the hours actually worked. Whether an extra hour is paid at your base rate, at a premium, or not separately at all is not something a conversion formula can determine, and it is not safe to assume that every hour past 40 is automatically paid at 1.5× for every worker. This page is general information, not legal advice; check your contract, your employer's policy and the rules that apply where you work.

If you do know your overtime arrangement and want it reflected, the practical approach is to calculate base pay and premium pay separately and add them. For example, 40 hours at the base rate for 52 weeks gives the base annual figure, and any premium hours can be converted on their own using their own effective rate, then added on. Keeping the two apart avoids quietly baking an assumed overtime rate into a headline salary number. If you already know your overtime hours and pay multiplier, use the Overtime Calculator to estimate regular pay, overtime pay and total gross pay.

7. Does this calculator include taxes?

No. These are gross pay estimates before taxes and deductions. Every figure on this page — annual, monthly, biweekly, weekly, daily and hourly — is what you earn before anything is withheld.

Take-home pay depends on individual circumstances: federal income tax, any state and local income tax, Social Security and Medicare withholding, health insurance premiums, retirement contributions, filing status and other payroll deductions. Those vary so much from person to person that a single conversion tool cannot produce a meaningful net figure, so this calculator deliberately does not try. Treat every result here as the gross number you would see on a job posting or an offer letter, not the amount that lands in your account.

8. Is your salary competitive?

Converting hourly pay to an annual salary tells you what your compensation adds up to over a year. It does not tell you whether that amount is competitive. $52,000 could be strong or weak depending entirely on the occupation you work in and the state you work in, and the conversion formula has no opinion on that question.

Answering it takes a benchmark. Look up your occupation and location below to see the reported median and percentile range from official U.S. wage data, then place your converted annual figure inside that range.

For help reading the result, see am I underpaid? and what salary should I ask for. If the benchmark suggests you are behind, how to ask for a raise and how to negotiate salary cover what to do next, and the salary increase calculator shows what a given raise percentage would be worth.

9. Frequently asked questions