Salary to Hourly Calculator

What this calculator answers

It shows what one gross pay figure equals in every other pay period, in either direction: a salary as an hourly rate, an hourly wage as a yearly salary, or a biweekly or monthly paycheck as both. It uses your own hours, workdays and paid weeks rather than a hidden 2,080-hour year, and it can add three things a plain converter leaves out: paid days off (your effective hourly rate), overtime at time and a half or another multiplier, and the months in which a biweekly schedule pays three times.

How to use it

• Pay and pay period: any one amount you know, before tax and without overtime, and how often it is paid: an hour, a day, a week, every two weeks (biweekly), twice a month (semi-monthly), a month or a year. 60,000, $60,000 and 60k all work.
• Hours per week: your regular hours, 40 for a typical full-time job. For a part-time job, enter the hours you actually work.
• Days per week: the days those hours are spread over. It sets the daily figure and the length of a day off.
• Paid weeks a year: 52 when every week is paid, including paid vacation. If you take unpaid weeks off, subtract them (50 for two unpaid weeks).
• Paid days off (optional): paid holidays and vacation days you don’t work. They don’t change your pay; they show what you earn per hour actually worked.
• Overtime hours (optional): extra hours each week on top of the regular ones. An overtime multiplier field then appears, starting at 1.5 (time and a half); type 2 for double time.
• Biweekly payday (optional): any payday, past or upcoming, to list the months that bring three paychecks.

Every edit recalculates at once, and each Try button loads one of the cases worked through below. The table of every pay period downloads as a CSV file, and two “what if” tables repeat the conversion at nearby pay amounts and at other weekly hours. To weigh two job offers, save the first with Save for comparison, type in the second and save it too: the saved scenarios show the difference in hourly, effective hourly and yearly pay. Continue in the Employer Retirement Match Calculator carries your yearly pay over to work out a 401(k) match.

Salary to hourly

To turn a salary into an hourly rate, divide the yearly pay by the hours you are paid for in a year, which is hours per week times paid weeks. A monthly, semi-monthly, biweekly or weekly amount is first turned into a year by multiplying by 12, 24, 26 or 52.

$$\text{hourly rate} = \frac{A}{H \times W}$$ $$A = \text{pay per period} \times N$$

• $A$ is the yearly gross pay.
• $H$ is your regular hours per week.
• $W$ is the paid weeks a year, usually 52.
• $N$ is the number of pay periods a year: 12 for monthly pay, 24 for semi-monthly, $W \div 2$ for biweekly (26 in a 52-week year), $W$ for weekly and days per week × $W$ for daily.

Every other period follows from the same year: weekly pay is $A \div W$, a day’s pay is $A$ divided by the days paid in a year, semi-monthly pay is $A \div 24$ and monthly pay is $A \div 12$.

Worked example: $60,000 a year

A salary of $60,000 for 40 hours a week, 5 days a week, 52 paid weeks:

1. Paid hours a year: 40 × 52 = 2,080 hours.
2. Hourly: $60,000 ÷ 2,080 = $28.846…, which rounds to $28.85 an hour.
3. Daily: $60,000 ÷ 260 days (5 × 52) = $230.77, the same as 8 hours at $28.846.
4. Weekly: $60,000 ÷ 52 = $1,153.85.
5. Biweekly: $60,000 ÷ 26 = $2,307.69.
6. Semi-monthly: $60,000 ÷ 24 = $2,500.00, and monthly: $60,000 ÷ 12 = $5,000.00.

The “what if” tables under the result carry this further. Nearby salaries at the same 2,080 hours: $50,000 is $24.04 an hour, $55,000 is $26.44, $65,000 is $31.25 and $70,000 is $33.65. The same $60,000 over longer weeks pays less per hour: $25.64 at 45 hours a week and $23.08 at 50.

Hourly to salary

To turn an hourly wage into a yearly salary, multiply it by your paid hours for the year. At $25 an hour, 40 hours a week and 52 paid weeks, that is $25 × 2,080 = $52,000.00 a year, or $4,333.33 a month, $2,166.67 twice a month and $2,000.00 every two weeks.

The shortcut “double the hourly rate and add three zeros” assumes a 2,000-hour year, so it comes out about 4% low for a 40-hour, 52-week job: $25 an hour becomes $50,000 instead of $52,000.

A paycheck works the same way in reverse. $1,800 every two weeks is $1,800 × 26 = $46,800.00 a year, which is $46,800 ÷ 2,080 = $22.50 an hour.

How many work hours are in a year?

The usual answer, 2,080, is 52 weeks of 40 hours. A calendar year is a little longer than 52 weeks (365 or 366 days), so depending on the year it holds 260, 261 or 262 weekdays, or 2,080 to 2,096 hours at 8 hours a day.

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management uses the average over the 28-year cycle of the calendar, 2,087 hours, for most federal civilian employees: the hourly rate is the annual rate ÷ 2,087, rounded to the cent, and biweekly pay is that rate × 80 hours. For a $60,000 annual rate, that is $28.75 an hour and $2,300.00 every two weeks, so 26 paychecks come to $59,800.00 and a year with 27 paydays pays more. To use the federal divisor here, set paid weeks to 52.175, which is 2,087 ÷ 40; the steps then show the rounded federal paycheck.

For a part-time or compressed schedule, the hours are simply yours: 24 hours a week for 52 weeks is 1,248 hours, so $18 an hour is $22,464.00 a year.

Paid vs. unpaid time off, and your effective hourly rate

Unpaid time off lowers the year’s pay for anyone paid by the hour, day or week; paid time off leaves the pay alone and lowers the hours you actually work.

• Unpaid weeks: at $25 an hour, two unpaid weeks mean 50 paid weeks, so the year is $25 × 40 × 50 = $50,000.00, which is $2,000.00 less than 52 paid weeks. Weekly and biweekly paychecks for weeks you work stay at $1,000.00 and $2,000.00; averaged over the year the monthly figure drops to $4,166.67. If you enter a yearly amount with fewer paid weeks, the calculator reads it as what that shorter year pays, so the hourly rate rises instead: $60,000 over 48 weeks is $31.25 an hour.
• Paid days off: 20 paid days (for example 10 holidays and 10 vacation days) are 20 × 8 = 160 hours you are paid for but don’t work. The salary still works out to $28.85 an hour on the 2,080 hours paid, but you earn it in 2,080 − 160 = 1,920 hours worked, so the effective hourly rate is $60,000 ÷ 1,920 = $31.25. At the regular rate those days are worth $4,615.38.

The effective rate is the fairer way to compare an hourly job without paid leave against a salaried job with it. Federal law doesn’t require employers to pay for vacations or holidays, so check what an offer actually includes.

Adding overtime

Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, employees who aren’t exempt must get at least 1.5 times their regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek. Each week stands alone, so a biweekly schedule of 30 hours one week and 50 the next still owes 10 overtime hours, even though the two weeks average 40. A salary doesn’t make someone exempt by itself: exemption generally depends on both the job’s duties and a minimum salary.

Enter overtime separately from regular hours. At $25 an hour with 5 overtime hours a week at 1.5:

1. Overtime rate: $25 × 1.5 = $37.50 an hour.
2. Overtime a week: 5 × $37.50 = $187.50, so a week pays $1,187.50.
3. Overtime a year: $187.50 × 52 = $9,750.00, for a total of $52,000 + $9,750 = $61,750.00.
4. Effective hourly rate: $61,750 ÷ 2,340 hours worked (45 × 52) = $26.39.

At double time the same 5 hours bring the year to $65,000.00. Overtime is counted only in weeks you work, so with paid days off it covers fewer weeks. Some states have their own overtime laws. To total overtime from real shifts week by week, use a timesheet calculator.

Biweekly vs. semi-monthly pay

Biweekly pay comes every two weeks, 26 times in most years and 27 in some; semi-monthly pay comes twice a month, 24 times a year. The same $60,000 salary is $2,307.69 biweekly but $2,500.00 semi-monthly, so a biweekly check is not half a month’s pay: 26 checks share the year instead of 24.

The difference shows up in two months of a 26-payday year, when three biweekly paydays land in the same month. If your first payday of 2026 falls on Friday, January 2, those months are January and July, and each brings 3 × $2,307.69 = $6,923.08 instead of $4,615.38. Enter any payday to see your own months. A monthly budget on biweekly pay can count two paychecks a month and leave the two extra ones for other uses, or work from the yearly pay ÷ 12 ($5,000.00 here).

Gross pay vs. take-home pay

Every figure on this page is gross pay, before anything is withheld. Your paychecks will be smaller because taxes are withheld and deductions such as health insurance or retirement contributions come out first, and those depend on your tax situation, your state and your benefits. This calculator doesn’t estimate them. For the federal income tax, the IRS Tax Withholding Estimator (linked with the result and in the sources) estimates how much your employer should withhold.

Reading the result

• The headline is the hourly rate when you enter a weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, monthly or yearly amount, and the yearly pay (with overtime, when entered) when you enter an hourly or daily rate.
• The tiles add monthly, biweekly or yearly pay and the paid hours a year. With paid days off or overtime, three more show the effective hourly rate, hours worked, the overtime rate and overtime pay, or what your paid days off are worth.
• Gross pay for every pay period lists all seven periods, marks the one you entered and shows how many of each period a year pays. With overtime it gains a “With overtime” column; there, the hourly and daily figures are averages over a week that includes overtime.
• Months with three paydays appears when you enter a biweekly payday.
• The “what if” tables repeat the conversion at nearby pay amounts ($1, $2 and $5 an hour either side, or $5,000 and $10,000 a year) and at other weekly hours, with the rest of your inputs unchanged.
• The steps show each division with your numbers and end with the same answer as a spreadsheet formula, such as =60000/(40*52).

Assumptions and limitations

• Pay is gross: no taxes, deductions, bonuses, tips, commissions, shift premiums or benefits.
• Hours are the same every week, and overtime is the same in every week you work. Daily overtime rules are not modeled.
• Hourly, daily, weekly and biweekly figures are pay for time you work; semi-monthly and monthly figures spread the year evenly. With 52 paid weeks the two agree.
• Paid days off are paid at the regular rate. Unpaid time off is entered as whole or part weeks.
• Dollar figures are shown to the nearest cent while the math keeps full precision. Employers may round the hourly rate first, as federal payroll does, so a real paycheck can differ by a few cents.
• The result is an educational estimate, not payroll, tax or legal advice.

Common mistakes

• Rounding the hourly rate and multiplying back. $28.85 × 2,080 is $60,008.00, not $60,000. Keep the unrounded rate ($28.846…) when you convert back.
• Using 4 weeks for a month. A month averages 52 ÷ 12 ≈ 4.33 weeks, so $1,000 a week is $4,333.33 a month, not $4,000.
• Treating biweekly as twice a month. Twenty-six biweekly checks of $2,307.69 and 24 semi-monthly checks of $2,500.00 pay the same year; halving the monthly figure overstates a biweekly check.
• Lowering the weeks for paid vacation. If your vacation is paid, leave paid weeks at 52 and enter the days as paid days off; fewer weeks would leave out pay an hourly worker actually receives for those days.
• Putting overtime into regular hours. 45 hours at $25 is $58,500.00 a year at straight time but $61,750.00 when the 5 hours over 40 are paid at 1.5.