Income · salary converter
Enter a pay rate at any frequency and see what it works out to hourly, daily, weekly, biweekly, twice a month, monthly and per year — all at once. Adjust your hours and weeks worked to match real life.
Your pay, every way
The same pay, restated across every period
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A pay rate only makes sense once you can see it from every angle. An offer quoted at “$28 an hour” and one quoted at “$58,000 a year” are hard to compare in your head — until you put them on the same footing. This salary calculator is a pure pay-period converter: enter a rate at any frequency and it restates the same gross pay as an hourly wage, a daily rate, a weekly, biweekly, semimonthly and monthly paycheck, and an annual salary, all at once.
Every conversion runs through one anchor figure: your annual salary. To get there, you multiply the rate you entered by how often it’s paid in a year. An hourly rate is multiplied by your hours per week and then by your weeks per year; a weekly rate is multiplied by 52; a biweekly rate by 26; a semimonthly rate by 24; a monthly rate by 12. Once the calculator knows your annual figure, it divides back out to fill in every other period. That’s why changing one input updates the whole table instantly — they’re all just different slices of the same yearly number.
The everyday shortcut for hourly-to-salary is to multiply your wage by 2,080 — the hours in a standard full-time year (40 hours × 52 weeks). So $25 an hour is about $52,000 a year. Going the other way, divide a salary by 2,080 to estimate the hourly equivalent: a $75,000 salary is roughly $36 an hour. The calculator uses your actual hours and weeks instead of a fixed 2,080, so part-time schedules and unpaid weeks come out right rather than approximate.
The split between hourly and salaried isn’t just about how the number is quoted — it changes how you’re paid. Hourly workers are paid for the hours they actually log, usually qualify for overtime beyond 40 hours a week, and see their paycheck shrink if they take unpaid time off. Salaried workers receive the same fixed amount each period regardless of hours, which smooths their income but often means no overtime. When you convert an hourly rate to a salary, you’re assuming a steady number of hours every week; if your hours swing, the real annual total will swing with them. For a deeper look at the trade-offs, read our guide on hourly vs. salary.
The calculator starts at 52 weeks a year, which assumes you’re paid for the full year. That holds when your vacation and holidays are paid — you’re still drawing a paycheck during those weeks, so they don’t change the annual total. It’s a different story for unpaid time off. If you take two unpaid weeks, you only work and earn for about 50 weeks, so your hourly rate is spread across fewer hours and your annual figure falls. Drop the weeks-per-year input to model that, and the hourly, daily and weekly lines in the table adjust while the fixed payroll cadences (biweekly, semimonthly, monthly) keep their standard 26, 24 and 12 counts. This matters most for contractors and hourly workers, who don’t get paid for the days they don’t work.
These two trip people up because they sound interchangeable but aren’t. Biweekly pay arrives every two weeks, which works out to 26 paychecks a year — and because 26 doesn’t divide evenly into 12 months, two months each year contain a “third” paycheck. Semimonthly pay arrives twice a month, on fixed dates like the 15th and the last day, for exactly 24 paychecks a year. For the same salary, each semimonthly check is a little larger than each biweekly one (you’re splitting the year into 24 pieces instead of 26), but the yearly total is identical. The conversion table lists both so you can see the difference in dollars rather than guess at it.
Every figure this tool shows is gross — the pay before anything is withheld. That’s the correct number for comparing offers and understanding a rate, but it’s not what hits your account. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare all come out first, and in most states a state income tax does too. To turn any of these gross figures into real net pay, run the take-home pay calculator, and for the full bracket-by-bracket picture of what you’ll owe, use the income tax calculator. Think of this salary calculator as step one — getting the rate onto a common footing — and the tax tools as step two, turning that into the amount you actually keep.
Once you know your annual salary, the take-home pay calculator shows what survives taxes, and the income tax calculator breaks down your federal bill. If you’re weighing two jobs or a raise, the hourly vs. salary guide covers the parts a number can’t — benefits, overtime and stability. Browse the full set on the calculators page. This calculator is an educational conversion of gross pay, not financial advice — your real take-home depends on taxes, benefits and the hours you actually work.
Multiply your hourly rate by the hours you work per week, then by the number of weeks you work per year. At $25 an hour, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, that’s 25 × 40 × 52 = $52,000. The quick shortcut is to double your hourly rate and add three zeros ($25 → roughly $50,000), which assumes a standard 2,080-hour year. This calculator does the full conversion both ways, so you can also go from a salary back to an hourly figure.
Biweekly means you’re paid every two weeks — 26 paychecks a year — so two months each year contain three paydays. Semimonthly means twice a month, usually the 15th and the last day, for exactly 24 paychecks a year. Because 26 doesn’t equal 24, a biweekly check is slightly smaller than a semimonthly one for the same salary, even though the annual total is identical. The conversion table shows both side by side.
By default the calculator assumes 52 paid weeks a year. If you take unpaid time off — say two weeks of unpaid vacation — you actually work about 50 weeks, so your hourly rate is spread across fewer hours and your annual figure drops. Lowering the weeks-per-year input models that. Paid vacation and paid holidays don’t reduce it, because you’re still paid for those weeks; only unpaid time off changes the math.
This is gross pay — your pay before any taxes or deductions come out. It’s the right number for comparing offers and understanding a rate, but it’s not what lands in your bank account. To see your net pay after federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare, use the take-home pay calculator, which runs your salary through the real brackets and payroll-tax rates.
A standard full-time year is 2,080 hours: 40 hours a week × 52 weeks. That’s the basis for the common “× 2,080” rule for turning an hourly rate into a salary. If you work part-time or take unpaid weeks off, your annual hours are lower — 30 hours a week over 52 weeks is 1,560 hours, for example. Change the hours-per-week and weeks-per-year inputs and the calculator recomputes your true annual hours instantly.
Because a month is a little longer than four weeks. There are 52 weeks in a year but only 12 months, so a month averages about 4.33 weeks. Four weekly checks understate your monthly pay; the correct monthly figure is your annual salary divided by 12. This is also why biweekly pay (26 checks) doesn’t divide evenly into 12 months — two months a year carry an extra paycheck.
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