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Annual to hourly pay converter
A salary in, an hourly rate out, or the other way round, on your own hours per week and weeks per year. Gross pay only, and it computes no tax.
Pay figures are sensitive. The link carries them in the address itself, so think before you paste it anywhere shared.
The working
| Measure | Value | How it is worked out |
|---|---|---|
| The working appears here once your figures are in. | ||
How the answer is worked out
Every step, in the open, so you can rebuild it in a few spreadsheet cells and disagree with it if you want to. A calculator you cannot check is an ad.
Hours in a year, the figure everything rests on
Hours per week multiplied by weeks per year gives the hours worked in a year. At 40 hours over 52 weeks that is 2,080. Every conversion here divides by or multiplies by that one number, so the two assumptions you set, the hours and the weeks, are what actually drive the answer. Change either and the rate changes, which is why the tool asks for them rather than baking in a working calendar you did not choose.
Annual to hourly, and back
An hourly rate is the annual salary divided by the hours in a year. An annual salary is the hourly rate multiplied by the hours in a year. The two are exact inverses, so converting one way and then back returns the figure you started with. The weekly figure is the annual divided by weeks per year, and the monthly figure is the annual divided by twelve, both shown so you can sanity-check the rate against pay you already know.
Weeks per year, and unpaid time
Weeks per year is where unpaid time enters the arithmetic. A salaried employee whose leave is paid works to 52. Someone paid only for the weeks they actually work, a contractor who does not bill holidays, or a role with unpaid shutdown weeks, works to fewer. Lowering the figure raises the hourly rate a given annual salary implies, because the same money is spread over fewer weeks, and that is the honest way to compare a salaried offer with an hourly one.
What this tool does not know
What you should be paid. It holds no market data, no going rate and no median for any role or country, and it will not be adding any, because a free page quoting invented pay data would be worse than no page. It converts the figure you give it between annual and hourly, nothing more.
It also computes no tax and does not model overtime, shift premiums or benefits. Every figure is gross, at one rate for every hour you enter. To build the fuller cost of an employee, use the employee cost estimator, and for what a contractor engagement costs all-in, the contractor cost calculator.
Questions with complete answers
How is the conversion done?
An annual salary becomes an hourly rate by dividing it by the hours worked in a year, which is hours per week multiplied by weeks per year. An hourly rate becomes an annual salary by multiplying it back up the same way: hourly times hours per week times weeks per year. At 40 hours a week over 52 weeks that is 2,080 hours a year, so 60,000 a year is about 28.85 an hour. The weekly figure is the annual divided by weeks per year, and the monthly figure is the annual divided by twelve.
Is this gross pay or take-home?
Gross, before any tax. The tool computes no tax and will not tell you what an hourly rate leaves you after deductions, because that depends on tax bands, thresholds and social contributions that differ by country and change over time, and this site does not invent numbers of that kind. Use the gross figure here and take it to an official calculator or your payroll partner for the country concerned if you need net pay.
What should I put for weeks per year?
That is the assumption that does the work, and it is deliberately yours to set. Fifty-two is the default and treats every week of the year as paid, which fits a salaried employee whose leave is paid. Lower it to account for unpaid weeks: someone paid only for the weeks they work, a contractor who does not bill holidays, or a role with unpaid shutdown weeks. Drop from 52 to 48 and the same annual figure implies a higher hourly rate, because the same money is earned over fewer weeks.
What about part-time hours or overtime?
Part-time is simply a smaller hours-per-week figure: enter the hours actually worked and the conversion follows. Overtime is not modelled, because it is paid at rates and rules that differ by country and by contract, so the converter assumes every hour in your hours-per-week figure is paid at the one rate. If overtime is paid differently, work those hours out separately rather than folding them into this figure.
Is anything I type saved or sent anywhere?
No. It computes in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. There is no email wall, no account and no storage. The link button puts your figures in the address itself if you want to send them to someone, and the page says so before you use it, but pay figures are sensitive so think before you paste that link somewhere public.
A rate is a conversion. The people you pay it to live in a roster, not a spreadsheet.