Hourly to Salary Calculator
Turn your hourly rate into annual, monthly, weekly, and daily pay.
Gross pay, before tax. Drop the paid weeks below 52 to model unpaid time off. The math works in any currency, the symbol is just a symbol.
The recruiter says 28 an hour and your brain needs a second. Rent is monthly. The other offer is a salary. Nothing lines up, and you are doing mental math on a phone call.
This converter puts every number in the same language. Type the rate and see the year, the month, the fortnight, the week, and the day, side by side. Adjust hours per week if you are not on a standard 40, and drop the paid weeks if your time off is unpaid, which is the detail hourly workers get burned on.
Now you can compare offers, or quote a rate, without guessing.
Freelancing rather than taking a job? This conversion assumes every hour is paid, which is true of a salary and not of self-employment. The freelance rate calculator runs the sum the other way, taking out your unpaid weeks, your tax and the share of the week nobody pays for.
How the salary is worked out
Annual pay is the hourly rate multiplied by your hours per week and then by the weeks you are paid in a year. Weekly pay is the rate times your weekly hours, biweekly is two weeks of that, monthly is the annual figure divided by twelve, and daily assumes a five day week.
Annual salary = hourly rate × hours per week × paid weeks per year.
A worked example
At $28 an hour and 40 hours a week, 52 paid weeks come to $58,240 a year. If four of those weeks are unpaid, which is common for hourly and contract work, the year is 48 weeks and $53,760, a difference of $4,480.
A useful sanity check is the double-it rule: double the hourly rate and add three zeros, so $25 an hour is roughly $50,000. The rule assumes 2,000 working hours, 50 weeks of 40, so it runs about 4 percent below the 2,080 hour figure of $52,000.
Mistakes that skew the number
Multiplying weekly pay by four to get a month. An average month has about 4.33 weeks, so $1,000 a week is $4,333 a month, not $4,000.
Leaving out overtime, or counting it at the normal rate. This conversion covers regular hours only. If you regularly work past 40 hours, work out the extra separately with the overtime pay calculator.
Comparing an hourly offer with a salary as if the benefits were equal. Health cover, retirement contributions and paid leave often come with salaried roles and not with hourly or contract ones, so the bigger gross number is not always the better offer.
That rate is the plan. This shows what you actually earn.
A stated hourly rate assumes every hour is billable. PomoTodo tracks real time against real projects and works out your effective rate: the fee divided by the hours it truly took. On fixed-fee work that gap is usually the whole story.
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Questions
How do I convert an hourly rate to a yearly salary?
Multiply your hourly rate by the hours you work per week, then by the weeks you are paid per year. At 40 hours and 52 weeks that is rate x 2,080. The calculator does this live and also breaks it into monthly, biweekly, weekly, and daily pay.
What if I do not get paid vacation?
Lower the paid weeks per year. A contractor who takes four unpaid weeks off would use 48 instead of 52, which is often the honest number when comparing a contract rate to a salaried offer.
Is the result before or after tax?
Before tax. This is gross pay, the number job offers and contracts are written in. Take-home depends on your country, state, and deductions, which no simple converter can know.