Salary to Hourly Calculator

How to use the salary to hourly calculator

1. Enter the amount you earn and pick the period it covers — hour, day, week, two weeks, half month, month or year.
2. Set your work schedule: hours per week (40 by default), days per week (5), and the number of paid weeks per year (52 if you are paid for every week).
3. Add any unpaid holiday or vacation days. Leave this at 0 if your time off is paid.
4. Read the equivalents. The table at the bottom shows each period next to how many times it occurs in a year, and downloads as CSV.

Everything updates as you type, and your figures never leave the browser.

How it works

The yearly total is the anchor, and every other period is derived from it.

Paid hours per year come from your schedule:

hours per day   = hours per week / days per week
days per year   = days per week × paid weeks − unpaid days
hours per year  = days per year × hours per day

The default 40 hours across 5 days and 52 weeks gives the familiar 2,080 hours and 260 working days a year. Reducing paid weeks or adding unpaid days lowers those totals, which raises the hourly rate that a fixed salary implies — and lowers the annual total that a fixed hourly rate produces.

Worked examples

Salary to hourly. $50,000 a year on a standard 40-hour, 52-week schedule is $24.04 an hour, $192.31 a day and $961.54 a week.

Hourly to salary. $25 an hour at 40 hours a week for 52 weeks is $52,000 a year — $4,333.33 a month, or $2,000 in each of 26 bi-weekly paychecks.

A shorter week. $4,500 a month on a 37.5-hour week is $54,000 a year and $27.69 an hour, noticeably better than the same monthly pay on a 40-hour contract ($25.96).

A four-day week. $45,000 a year across 30 hours in 4 days is $28.85 an hour and $216.35 a day, because only 1,560 hours a year are worked.

Unpaid leave. A $50,000 salary with 10 unpaid days works out to $25.00 an hour, since you are paid for 2,000 hours rather than 2,080. Those ten days are worth $2,000 of pay.

Comparing two offers

Pay periods are the easiest place for an offer to look better than it is. A job advertised at $22 an hour with a guaranteed 45-hour week earns more per year than one at $24 an hour capped at 35 hours, even though the headline rate is lower. Convert both to the annual line before deciding anything.

Do the same with the schedule fields. A role with four unpaid shutdown weeks is effectively 48 paid weeks, not 52, and one with a 37.5-hour contract gives back 130 hours a year compared with a 40-hour week. Enter each offer in turn, note the hourly and annual rows, and you have a like-for-like comparison in seconds — then weigh the parts no calculator sees, such as commute, overtime rules, job security and how paid leave is handled.

Tips and common mistakes

• 2,080 is a convention, not a law. It assumes 40 hours for all 52 weeks with paid time off. If your leave is unpaid or your week is shorter, your real hourly rate is different.
• Bi-weekly is not twice monthly. Twenty-six bi-weekly paychecks mean two months a year contain three paychecks — useful to know when budgeting.
• Unpaid overtime hides a pay cut. Enter the hours you really work, not the hours in your contract, to see the rate you are actually earning.
• Benefits are part of pay. Employer pension contributions, health insurance, bonuses and paid leave can add 20–30% to the value of a salaried job, and none of them appear in a raw hourly comparison.
• Compare gross with gross. Tax rates differ by country, region and personal circumstance, so comparing pre-tax figures is the only fair like-for-like starting point.

The results here are pre-tax estimates for comparison and are not tax or financial advice.

Glossary

• Gross pay – earnings before tax and deductions.
• Bi-weekly – paid every two weeks, 26 times a year.
• Semi-monthly – paid twice a month, 24 times a year.
• Paid weeks – the weeks of the year you actually receive pay for.
• FTE – full-time equivalent, the share of a full-time schedule a role represents.

Last reviewed: September 21, 2026