Convert a salary into an hourly wage — or an hourly wage into a salary. Set your work schedule, then enter any one pay figure (annual, monthly, weekly, daily, or hourly) and the calculator fills in all the others.
The salary to hourly calculator converts a yearly, monthly, weekly, or daily salary into an equivalent hourly wage — and works in reverse, turning an hourly rate into a full salary. Set how many hours a week you work, enter any single pay figure, and the calculator instantly shows what you earn per hour, per day, per week, per month, and per year. It is the fastest way to compare a salaried job offer against an hourly one, to check whether a raise keeps pace with your workload, or simply to understand what your time is really worth.
Pay is quoted in many different ways. A job listing might advertise "$50,000 a year," a contractor might charge "$40 an hour," and a weekly paycheck might read "$1,200." Comparing them fairly means converting everything to the same basis, and that is exactly what this tool does. Because it is bidirectional, you never have to remember which way the formula runs — just type the number you have.
The core idea is simple: an hourly wage is your total pay divided by the total hours you work to earn it. Starting from an annual salary, the formula is:
hourly wage = annual salary ÷ (hours per week × 52 weeks)
The 52 comes from the number of weeks in a year. So if you earn $50,000 a year and work 40 hours a week, your hourly wage is $50,000 ÷ (40 × 52) = $50,000 ÷ 2,080 = $24.04 per hour. The figure 2,080 — 40 hours times 52 weeks — is the standard number of working hours in a full-time year, which is why it shows up so often in pay calculations.
All five pay rates are linked through the hourly wage and your weekly schedule. With H hours per week and D days per week, the calculator uses:
To go the other way — from any salary back to an hourly wage — the calculator simply rearranges these. Whatever single value you enter, it first works out the hourly wage, then rebuilds every other pay rate from it. That is what makes the tool fully bidirectional.
Here are the four most common conversions, all assuming a 40-hour week and 52 weeks a year:
And running it forward, a $24.04 hourly wage on a 40-hour week comes to about $192.31 a day, $961.54 a week, $4,166.67 a month, and $50,000 a year — the full picture from a single number.
The single most important input, after the pay figure itself, is hours per week. Two people earning the same $50,000 salary have very different hourly wages if one works 35 hours a week and the other works 50. At 35 hours, $50,000 works out to about $27.47 an hour; at 50 hours, it drops to about $19.23. This is why salaried workers who put in long hours are sometimes effectively paid less per hour than hourly colleagues — the salary stays fixed while the hours climb. Adjusting the hours-per-week field lets you see your true hourly rate based on the time you actually work, not just the hours on paper.
Understanding the conversion also helps you weigh the trade-offs between the two ways of being paid. Salaried employees receive a fixed amount regardless of exact hours, which brings income stability and often better benefits, but can mean unpaid extra hours during busy periods. Hourly employees are paid for every hour worked, usually with overtime for hours beyond 40 a week, which rewards long hours but can mean variable, less predictable pay. Converting a salary to its hourly equivalent — and remembering to factor in overtime, benefits, and paid time off — is the only fair way to compare a salaried offer with an hourly one.
Because it accepts any one of the five figures, you can use it as a salary-to-hourly converter, an hourly-to-salary converter, or anything in between. There is no need to clear the other boxes by hand each time — just press Clear to reset everything to the defaults, change the one figure you care about, and calculate again. Every result is shown to the cent, and the note beneath the table restates the exact schedule the figures are based on, so you always know which assumptions produced them.
This tool converts gross pay — your pay before any deductions. It does not subtract income tax, National Insurance or Social Security, pension or retirement contributions, health insurance, or other withholdings, so your actual take-home (net) pay will be lower than the figures shown. It also assumes you are paid for a consistent number of hours every week across all 52 weeks of the year. If you take unpaid leave, work irregular hours, or receive bonuses and commissions, treat the results as a close estimate rather than an exact paycheck. For after-tax figures, use a dedicated take-home pay or salary calculator that accounts for your local tax rules.
The number 2,080 appears constantly in pay calculations, and it is worth understanding where it comes from: 40 hours per week multiplied by 52 weeks per year equals 2,080 hours. Dividing an annual salary by 2,080 gives the hourly wage for a standard full-time schedule, which is the convention used by most employers and this calculator. Keep in mind, though, that 2,080 assumes you are paid for every week including holidays and vacation. If you want to know your hourly rate based only on the weeks you actually work — say 48 weeks after four weeks of unpaid time off — you can lower the hours-per-week figure or think in terms of actual hours worked. For most salaried employees whose paid time off is included in the salary, the full 52-week, 2,080-hour basis is the right one, and it is what makes different job offers directly comparable.
Assuming a standard 40-hour week and 52 weeks a year (2,080 hours), here is roughly what common annual salaries work out to per hour:
Reading it the other way, a handy mental shortcut is that an hourly wage roughly doubled gives your annual salary in thousands: $20 an hour is about $40,000 a year, $30 an hour is about $60,000, and so on. It works because 40 hours times 52 weeks is 2,080 — very close to 2,000 — so multiplying an hourly rate by 2,000 gets you within a few percent of the true annual figure. It is a quick way to sanity-check any conversion in your head before reaching for the exact number.
This tool works just as well in reverse, which is invaluable for hourly workers, freelancers, and contractors trying to understand their annual earning power. If you earn $25 an hour and work 40 hours a week, your annual salary is $25 × 40 × 52 = $52,000 before taxes. Freelancers often need to run this backwards from a target: if you want to earn $80,000 a year and expect to bill 30 hours a week for 48 weeks (allowing for holidays and admin time), you need to charge $80,000 ÷ (30 × 48) = about $55.56 an hour. Because self-employed people also cover their own taxes, equipment, insurance, and unpaid downtime, the hourly rate a freelancer needs to charge is usually considerably higher than the equivalent employee wage — something this calculator makes easy to explore by adjusting the hours-per-week figure to reflect only billable time.
Real work schedules are not always a tidy 40 hours. For part-time work, simply enter your actual weekly hours — a $30,000 salary spread over 25 hours a week is a very different hourly rate ($23.08) than the same salary over 40 hours ($14.42). For overtime, remember that hours beyond the standard week are often paid at 1.5× the base rate for hourly employees, so a week with overtime earns more than a straight multiplication suggests; this calculator shows base-rate equivalents, so treat overtime separately. And for irregular or seasonal work, it is often clearest to total your actual hours and actual pay over a period and enter those, rather than assuming a constant weekly schedule. Adjusting the hours-per-week input to match reality is the key to getting an accurate hourly figure in all of these cases.
Divide your annual salary by the number of hours you work in a year. For a standard 40-hour week, that is 40 × 52 = 2,080 hours, so a $50,000 salary is $50,000 ÷ 2,080 = $24.04 per hour.
A standard full-time year is 2,080 hours — 40 hours per week times 52 weeks. If you work a different number of hours per week, multiply that figure by 52 to get your own annual hours.
Multiply your hourly wage by the hours you work each week, then by 52. For example, $24.04 × 40 × 52 = $50,000 a year. This calculator does it automatically — just enter your hourly rate.
No. It converts gross pay — the amount before taxes and deductions. Your net pay will be lower once income tax, Social Security or National Insurance, and other withholdings are taken out.
Change the "hours per week" field to your real number. The calculator recalculates every pay rate accordingly, so part-time and long-hour schedules are handled correctly.
Monthly pay is the annual salary divided by 12. This spreads a year's earnings evenly across the twelve months, which is how most salaried pay is scheduled, even though the exact number of working days varies from month to month.
This Salary to Hourly Calculator is provided for educational and general informational purposes. It converts gross pay and does not account for taxes, deductions, overtime, bonuses, or unpaid leave. Consult a qualified professional for financial and employment decisions.