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Hourly to Salary Calculator
Use this free hourly to salary calculator to turn your hourly wage into an annual salary. Enter your hourly rate, your regular hours each week, and how many weeks you work each year, and it shows your yearly, monthly, biweekly, weekly, and daily pay — with overtime included if you work extra hours.
Use 50 if you take two weeks of unpaid time off.
Your pay at a glance
Annual, monthly, biweekly, weekly, and daily pay from the same hourly rate. The chart updates live with your inputs.
How it works
An hourly wage and an annual salary are two ways of saying the same thing. The bridge between them is the number of hours you work in a year. Once you know that, the conversion is simple multiplication — and the monthly, biweekly, weekly, and daily figures are just the annual total split into smaller pieces.
Hourly rate is what you earn for one hour of work, before tax. Regular hours per week is your normal schedule — 40 hours is the standard full-time week in the United States. Weeks worked per year is how many weeks you actually work. A full year is 52 weeks, but if you take two weeks of unpaid vacation, enter 50. Paid vacation still counts as worked weeks, because you are paid for it.
Overtime hours per week are the extra hours beyond your regular schedule, and the overtime rate multiplier is what those hours pay. Time and a half (1.5 times your normal rate) is the most common overtime rate in the United States, and it is the default here. Some jobs pay double time (2 times) for Sundays or holidays, and a few pay straight time (1 times). If you never work overtime, leave the overtime hours at 0 and it has no effect.
A full-time year at 40 hours a week for 52 weeks is 2,080 hours, so a quick shortcut is to multiply your hourly rate by 2,080. At $25 an hour, that is $52,000 a year. The monthly figure is the annual salary divided by 12, the biweekly figure is divided by 26 (there are 26 biweekly pay periods in a year), and the weekly figure is divided by 52. The daily figure divides the weekly pay by your workdays per week — 5 days by default, so a $1,000 week is $200 a day. Remember that all of these figures are gross pay, before income tax, Social Security, Medicare, and deductions such as health insurance or retirement contributions. Your take-home pay will be lower, usually by 15% to 30%.
One more thing to watch: comparing two jobs by hourly rate alone can mislead you. A job at $26 an hour with no paid time off and 48 weeks a year pays $49,920, while a job at $25 an hour for all 52 weeks pays $52,000. Enter the real weeks and overtime for each offer and the calculator shows the honest comparison.
Worked example
Priya earns $25 an hour, works 40 regular hours a week, and works all 52 weeks of the year, with no overtime. Here is how her salary works out, step by step.
Step 1: Work out the annual salary. $25 × 40 hours × 52 weeks = $52,000.00 a year. (The shortcut agrees: $25 × 2,080 hours = $52,000.)
Step 2: Work out the monthly salary. $52,000 ÷ 12 = $4,333.33 a month.
Step 3: Work out the biweekly salary. $52,000 ÷ 26 = $2,000.00 every two weeks.
Step 4: Work out the weekly salary. $52,000 ÷ 52 = $1,000.00 a week.
Step 5: Work out the daily salary. $1,000 ÷ 5 workdays = $200.00 a day.
Enter the same numbers — $25 an hour, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks, no overtime — and the calculator shows exactly the same result: an annual salary of $52,000.00, with $4,333.33 a month, $2,000.00 biweekly, $1,000.00 a week, and $200.00 a day. Add 5 overtime hours a week at time and a half and the annual salary rises to $61,750.00 ($5,145.83 a month, $2,375.00 biweekly, $1,187.50 a week, $237.50 a day).
FAQ
How do I convert an hourly wage to an annual salary?
Multiply your hourly rate by the hours you work each week, then by the weeks you work each year. For a full-time job at 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, that is your rate times 2,080. At $25 an hour, that comes to $52,000 a year. Add any overtime pay on top, at your overtime rate.
How many hours are in a full-time work year?
A standard full-time schedule of 40 hours a week for 52 weeks is 2,080 hours a year. If you take unpaid time off, use fewer weeks — for example, 50 weeks gives 2,000 hours. This calculator lets you enter the exact number of weeks you work, so unpaid vacation or seasonal breaks are handled correctly.
How is overtime included in the salary?
Overtime hours are paid at your overtime rate, which defaults to time and a half — 1.5 times your normal rate. The calculator adds your overtime hours each week, times your overtime rate, times the weeks you work, to your regular pay. If your employer pays double time, change the multiplier to 2.
Is the monthly salary just the annual salary divided by 12?
Yes. The monthly figure is the annual salary divided by 12, the biweekly figure is the annual salary divided by 26, and the weekly figure is the annual salary divided by 52. The daily figure assumes a five-day work week, so it is the weekly pay divided by 5. These are averages — a real paycheck varies a little by month because months have different numbers of workdays.
Is this salary before or after tax?
Before tax. The result is your gross salary — what you earn before income tax, Social Security, Medicare, and any deductions for health insurance or retirement savings. Your take-home pay will be lower, usually by 15% to 30% depending on your tax situation and deductions.