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Hourly to Salary Calculator

Convert your hourly wage into annual, monthly and weekly pay.

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How to use the Hourly to Salary Calculator

  1. Enter your hourly wage.
  2. Enter how many hours you work per week.
  3. See your annual, monthly and weekly pay.
Formula Annual = hourly × hours/week × 52 weeks

About the Hourly to Salary Calculator

This converts an hourly wage into annual, monthly, weekly and daily figures by multiplying out: weekly pay is your rate × hours per week, annual pay is that × 52, monthly is the annual figure ÷ 12, and the daily figure assumes a five-day week. It is plain arithmetic, which is what makes it useful for putting an hourly offer and a salaried offer on the same scale.

The comparison is the point: an hourly rate that looks generous can trail a salary once you account for the hours it assumes, and a salary can hide a longer working week. Converting both to the same unit strips the framing out.

This is gross pay, not take-home. It deducts no income tax, social-security or national-insurance contributions, pension contributions or health premiums — what actually reaches your account is meaningfully less, and how much less depends on where you live and your circumstances. It also assumes 52 paid weeks with identical hours every single week: unpaid leave, unpaid holidays and seasonal shutdowns all reduce the real total, while overtime premiums would raise it. Whether holidays are paid and how overtime is treated varies by employer and country. The inflation calculator shows what a fixed salary is worth after a few years without a raise.

Frequently asked questions

Is this gross pay or take-home pay?

Gross — before any deductions at all. Income tax, social-security or national-insurance contributions, pension contributions and any health or benefit premiums all come out of this figure. Your actual take-home depends on your country, your allowances and your circumstances, so no calculator can give it from a wage alone.

Does it account for unpaid leave?

No — it assumes 52 paid weeks a year. If some of your weeks are unpaid, work out your paid weeks and reduce the hours-per-week figure proportionally, or multiply the weekly figure by your real number of paid weeks instead.

Why 52 weeks and not something else?

A year is 52 weeks plus a day or two, so 52 is the standard convention — 40 hours a week over 52 weeks gives the familiar 2,080 hours often used for full-time work. Some payroll systems use 52.14 weeks or count actual working days, which produces marginally different numbers.

How do I convert a salary back to an hourly rate?

Divide the annual salary by 52 to get weekly pay, then divide that by your hours per week. On a 40-hour week you can also divide the annual figure by 2,080 for the same result.

Does it handle overtime?

Not directly. It applies one rate to all hours. If you regularly work overtime at a premium rate, calculate the base hours and the overtime hours separately and add the two annual figures together.