Salary to Hourly Calculator

How it is calculated

The tool divides the yearly pay by the hours actually worked in a year: hourly = salary / (hours × weeks), where salary is the annual amount, hours is hours per week and weeks is paid-and-worked weeks per year. Weekly pay is hourly × hours and monthly pay is simply salary / 12.

If you leave hours or weeks empty (or enter zero), the tool assumes 40 hours and 52 weeks. A negative salary gives no result. Amounts are shown in US dollars with two decimals. Note that the weekly figure follows your weeks input, while the monthly figure always spreads the year over 12 equal parts.

Common mistakes

• Entering a monthly or net figure in the salary box. The field expects the yearly amount, so a monthly number gives an hourly rate twelve times too low.
• Leaving weeks at the 52 default when you get no paid holiday. Using 48 or 50 weeks raises the true hourly rate.
• Counting overtime or unpaid lunch breaks in the weekly hours, which hides what you really earn per hour worked.
• Comparing a gross salary with an hourly offer quoted after tax, or the other way round.