Salary to Hourly Calculator (and Hourly to Salary)

This tool converts pay between annual salary and hourly wage using the assumptions you choose. It also provides weekly, biweekly, and monthly pay estimates so you can compare offers, plan budgets, or translate job listings into a consistent format.

Most online salary calculators assume 40 hours per week and 52 weeks per year. Those defaults are useful, but not always realistic. This calculator lets you adjust hours per week, paid weeks per year, and even working days per week for daily rates. You can also enable overtime if you want a rough estimate of extra earnings.

This tool estimates gross pay. Taxes, benefits, deductions, and pay schedules vary.

Salary and hourly pay describe the same earning power in different ways:

• Salary is helpful for comparing full-time roles, benefit packages, and annual budgets.
• Hourly pay makes it easier to compare part-time jobs, contract work, or overtime scenarios.

If two roles have different hours, hourly pay gives a clearer view. If two roles have similar hours, annual salary is often easier to compare. This calculator helps you move between the two with consistent assumptions.

The default assumptions are 40 hours per week and 52 paid weeks per year. You can adjust these inputs to reflect your real schedule:

• Hours per week: change this to 20 for part-time or 35 for a shorter schedule.
• Weeks per year: keep at 52 if you are paid all year, or reduce it if you take unpaid time off.
• Paid weeks per year: use this to model unpaid leave while keeping a separate weeks per year value for reference.
• Working days per week: this affects daily pay estimates. A standard workweek is 5 days.
• Overtime: enable if your role includes paid overtime. Set overtime hours per week and the multiplier (1.5 is common in the US).

These settings are visible on both tabs so your conversions stay consistent.

Many people see paychecks every two weeks, but some employers pay twice per month. These are not the same:

• Biweekly: 26 pay periods per year (52 weeks / 2).
• Semi-monthly: 24 pay periods per year (2 per month).

This calculator uses a biweekly estimate based on weeks per year. If your employer pays semi-monthly, your per-check amount may look slightly higher even though annual pay is the same.

Below are example conversions to show how the calculator works in practice.

Example 1: 70k salary at 40h and 52w

• Salary: 70,000
• Hours per week: 40
• Weeks per year: 52
• Result: about 33.65 per hour, with 1,346.15 per week and 5,833.33 per month.

Example 2: 25 per hour at 40h and 52w

• Hourly: 25
• Hours per week: 40
• Weeks per year: 52
• Result: about 52,000 per year, 1,000 per week, 2,000 biweekly.

Example 3: Part-time schedule

• Hourly: 18
• Hours per week: 20
• Weeks per year: 52
• Result: about 18,720 per year and 360 per week.

Example 4: Unpaid time off

• Salary: 60,000
• Hours per week: 40
• Paid weeks per year: 48
• Result: higher hourly and weekly rates because fewer paid weeks are used.

Example 5: Daily rate with 4 working days

• Salary: 80,000
• Hours per week: 32
• Working days per week: 4
• Result: daily pay is based on 8 hours per day.

Use this calculator when you need to compare job offers with different pay structures, translate a contract rate into an annual salary, or sanity-check overtime assumptions. It is also useful for budgeting when your pay schedule changes from hourly to salary or vice versa.