Salary to Hourly Calculator

How to use the salary to hourly calculator

1. Pick the direction: salary to hourly, or hourly to salary.
2. Enter the pay. Use gross pay, the amount before tax and deductions, as quoted in a job offer or posting.
3. Set the schedule. The default is a full-time 40-hour week, 52 paid weeks a year and 5 workdays a week. Change the hours for part-time work, and lower the paid weeks if some time off is unpaid.

The results show the converted rate and the same pay broken into monthly, semimonthly, biweekly, weekly and daily amounts. For salaries, the federal 2,087-hour rate is shown as well.

The conversion formula

Salary to hourly. $60,000 ÷ 2,080 = $28.85 an hour. $45,000 is $21.63 and $100,000 is $48.08.

Hourly to salary. $25 × 2,080 = $52,000 a year. $18 an hour is $37,440 and $40 is $83,200.

A quick estimate: double the hourly wage and add “thousand.” $25 an hour is about $50,000 a year, because 2,080 hours is close to 2,000. The exact figure is 4% higher.

2,080 or 2,087 hours?

A year of 52 weeks has 364 days, so a 40-hour schedule works out to 2,080 hours. But a calendar year has 365 days, or 366 in a leap year, which means some years contain 261 or 262 weekdays instead of 260.

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management handles this for federal employees by dividing the annual rate by 2,087 hours, the average number of work hours in a year over a 28-year cycle, and rounding to the cent. On that basis $60,000 is $28.75 an hour instead of $28.85. Most private employers use 2,080, but if you are comparing with a federal pay table, use the 2,087 line.

Monthly, semimonthly and biweekly pay

• Monthly: salary ÷ 12. $60,000 is $5,000 a month.
• Semimonthly (twice a month, often the 15th and the last day): salary ÷ 24 = $2,500.
• Biweekly (every other week): salary ÷ 26 = $2,307.69.
• Weekly: salary ÷ 52 = $1,153.85.
• Daily on a five-day week: $230.77.

Semimonthly and biweekly sound alike but differ. Biweekly checks are smaller, but there are 26 of them, so two months a year have a third paycheck. Monthly budgets built on biweekly pay should assume two checks a month, with the extra two as a bonus. Occasionally a calendar year contains 27 biweekly paydays; employers handle that in different ways, so check with yours.

Part-time work, unpaid time off and side jobs

Part-time. Change the hours per week. A $30,000 salary for 25 hours a week is 30,000 ÷ (25 × 52) = $23.08 an hour, which is much better than the $14.42 the same salary would mean at 40 hours.

Unpaid weeks. If you are paid only for weeks you work, for instance a contract job with two unpaid weeks, set paid weeks to 50. $25 an hour then comes to $50,000 a year instead of $52,000.

Paid time off. For a salaried job with paid vacation and holidays, keep 52 weeks: you are paid for those weeks even though you don’t work them. To see your pay per hour actually worked, lower the weeks by your days off ÷ 5. With 15 vacation days and 10 holidays, that is 47 weeks, and $60,000 becomes $31.91 per hour worked.

Comparing a salaried job with an hourly one

The conversion gives the base rate only. An hourly job that pays time and a half for overtime can earn more than its base suggests; the overtime calculator works out a week with overtime hours. A salaried job that routinely runs 50 hours a week pays less per hour than its salary implies: $60,000 over 50 × 52 hours is $23.08, not $28.85.

Benefits are not in these figures. Employer health insurance, retirement contributions and paid leave can be worth a large share of base pay, and they often differ between salaried and hourly roles. Compare total compensation, not just the headline rate.

All figures are gross. Taxes, insurance premiums and other deductions vary by person and place and are outside the scope of this calculator.

Quick reference: common rates on a 2,080-hour year

Hourly to yearly: $15 an hour is $31,200; $20 is $41,600; $25 is $52,000; $30 is $62,400; $35 is $72,800; $40 is $83,200; and $50 is $104,000.

Yearly to hourly: $40,000 is $19.23 an hour; $50,000 is $24.04; $75,000 is $36.06; $80,000 is $38.46; $100,000 is $48.08; and $120,000 is $57.69.

A raise of $1 an hour adds $2,080 a year at full time, and a $1,000 raise in salary adds 48 cents an hour.

Starting from monthly or weekly pay

If you know a monthly figure, multiply by 12 first: $4,000 a month is $48,000 a year, or $23.08 an hour at full time. For a weekly figure, multiply by 52: $900 a week is $46,800 a year, or $22.50 an hour on 40 hours. For a biweekly paycheck, multiply the gross amount by 26.

Matching a salary with a contract or freelance rate

An independent contractor’s hourly rate has to cover time that an employee is paid for without working, plus costs an employer would normally carry. A rough starting point is to divide the salary you want to match by the hours you expect to bill, not the hours in a year. To match $60,000 while billing 40 hours a week for 48 weeks, the rate is 60,000 ÷ (40 × 48) = $31.25 an hour, before covering benefits, equipment, unbilled admin time or self-employment costs.

Billable hours are usually fewer than hours worked, since finding clients and invoicing take time. If only 30 of your 40 weekly hours are billable, the same target needs 60,000 ÷ (30 × 48) = $41.67 an hour. Set the hours per week and paid weeks here to your billable estimate to see the rate.

Full time doesn’t mean 40 hours everywhere

Some employers define a full-time week as 37.5 or 35 hours. That changes the hourly figure noticeably. At 37.5 hours, a year is 1,950 hours, and $60,000 works out to $30.77 an hour. At 35 hours, it is 1,820 hours and $32.97 an hour. Enter the hours from your offer letter or employee handbook rather than assuming 40.

Sources & assumptions

How this calculator gets its numbers. Full method: our methodology.

• Annual pay = hourly wage × hours per week × paid weeks per year; the default is 40 × 52 = 2,080 hours.
• Monthly = annual ÷ 12, semimonthly ÷ 24, biweekly ÷ 26, weekly ÷ 52; daily = weekly pay ÷ workdays.
• The federal figure divides the annual rate by 2,087 hours and rounds to the cent, as OPM does.
• All amounts are gross; overtime, bonuses, benefits, taxes and deductions are not included.

Sources

1. U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Computing Hourly Rates of Pay Using the 2,087-Hour Divisor. Federal hourly pay is the annual rate divided by 2,087 hours, rounded to the nearest cent; biweekly pay is the hourly rate × 80. Shown here as the alternative to the common 2,080-hour year.

Last reviewed November 2, 2026. Your offer letter or pay stub shows the hours and pay schedule your employer actually uses.