Take a $60,000 salary with a standard 40-hour week and 52 paid weeks: 40 × 52 = 2,080 working hours a year, so the hourly rate is 60,000 ÷ 2,080 = $28.85. Change the schedule and the rate follows — the same salary over a 37.5-hour week is $30.77 an hour.
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Turn any pay figure into your hourly rate — and every other pay rate at once. Enter what you earn per hour, week, month or year, adjust your real working hours, and read the full breakdown instantly.
What is an hourly rate calculator?
An hourly rate calculator converts whatever pay figure you know into the rate you earn per hour — and, from there, into every other pay rate. Give it an annual salary and it works out your hourly wage; give it an hourly wage and it builds your weekly, monthly and yearly pay. The math is the same whether you're checking a job offer, comparing a salaried role against hourly work, or setting pay rates for a team.
This calculator goes both directions at once. Type the one number you know — per hour, day, week, two weeks, half-month, month or year — and the full pay-rate board updates instantly, using your real schedule: how many hours and days you work per week, and how many weeks a year you're actually paid for.
How to calculate your hourly rate
Four quick steps from one pay figure to the full picture.
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Enter the one pay amount you know — your salary, weekly paycheck, monthly pay or current hourly wage.
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Pick the period that amount covers: hour, day, week, two weeks, half-month, month or year.
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Set your real schedule — hours per week, days per week, and how many weeks a year you're paid for.
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Read your hourly rate and the full pay-rate breakdown: daily, weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, monthly and annual.
The hourly rate formula
Every conversion on this page comes from one line of math.
Hourly rate = Annual pay ÷ (Hours per week × Paid weeks per year)
From hourly to salary — and the tricky pair
The formula runs backwards too: $25 an hour × 2,080 hours = $52,000 a year. One pair trips people up: biweekly pay is the weekly amount × 2 (26 paychecks a year), while semimonthly pay is the annual amount ÷ 24 (two paychecks a month) — close, but never equal.
Salary to hourly at a glance
Common annual salaries converted at 40 hours per week, 52 paid weeks (2,080 hours).
| Annual salary | Hourly | Daily | Weekly | Monthly |
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| $30,000 | $14.42 | $115.38 | $576.92 | $2,500.00 |
| $40,000 | $19.23 | $153.85 | $769.23 | $3,333.33 |
| $50,000 | $24.04 | $192.31 | $961.54 | $4,166.67 |
| $60,000 | $28.85 | $230.77 | $1,153.85 | $5,000.00 |
| $75,000 | $36.06 | $288.46 | $1,442.31 | $6,250.00 |
| $100,000 | $48.08 | $384.62 | $1,923.08 | $8,333.33 |
Figures are gross (before tax). Different hours or unpaid weeks shift every column — use the calculator above for your exact schedule.
What changes your real hourly rate
Two people with the same salary can earn very different hourly rates — these three inputs decide it.
Hours per week
The fewer hours you work for the same pay, the higher your real rate. A $52,000 salary is $25.00 an hour at 40 hours — but $26.67 at 37.5 hours.
$52,000 at 37.5 h/week = $26.67/hPaid weeks per year
Unpaid time off shrinks the hours that earn your pay. Two unpaid weeks turn 52 paid weeks into 50 — same salary, 4% higher real hourly rate.
50 paid weeks → 2,000 hours, not 2,080Days per week
Days per week set your daily rate. A 40-hour week over 5 days is 8-hour days; compress it into 4 days and the daily rate jumps a quarter.
40 h ÷ 4 days = 10 h → +25% daily rateReading your rates honestly
Gross, not net
Every rate on this page is before taxes and deductions. Your take-home hourly rate is lower — how much lower depends on where you live and what you deduct.
Overtime and extras
Overtime premiums, bonuses and tips raise your effective hourly rate above the base one. If a big share of your pay comes from extras, calculate with total pay, not base salary.
Unpaid work hours
Off-the-clock work cuts your real rate. If a 40-hour job routinely takes 46 hours, your true rate is the 46-hour one — recalculate with the hours you actually put in.
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Divide your annual salary by your yearly working hours: hours per week × paid weeks per year. For a standard full-time schedule that's 40 × 52 = 2,080 hours, so a $60,000 salary is 60,000 ÷ 2,080 = $28.85 an hour.
Comparing a salaried offer against hourly work, checking what a raise really means per hour, converting a contractor's hourly quote into a yearly cost, or setting consistent pay rates for a team — any situation where you know one pay figure and need the others.
$28.85 an hour at 40 hours per week with 52 paid weeks. At 37.5 hours a week it's $30.77, and with two unpaid weeks (50 paid weeks at 40 hours) it's $30.00 — your schedule moves the number, which is why this calculator lets you adjust it.
Weekly pay: divide by your weekly hours — $800 over 40 hours is $20 an hour. Monthly pay: multiply by 12 to get the annual figure first, then divide by yearly hours — $4,000 a month is $48,000 a year, or $23.08 an hour at 2,080 hours.
It's the hours in a standard US full-time work year: 40 hours per week × 52 weeks = 2,080. It's the default divisor for salary-to-hourly conversions — but if your week or your paid weeks differ, your real divisor does too.
The formula is identical — only the hours change. $30,000 a year at 20 hours a week (1,040 hours) is $28.85 an hour, the same rate as $60,000 full-time. That's exactly why comparing jobs by salary alone misleads: the hourly rate is the honest comparison.
Multiply the hourly wage by hours per week, then by paid weeks per year. $22 an hour × 40 hours × 52 weeks = $45,760. Remember unpaid time off: the same wage with 50 paid weeks is $44,000.
Biweekly means every two weeks — 26 paychecks a year, each 2× your weekly pay. Semimonthly means twice a month — 24 paychecks a year, each 1/24 of annual pay. On the same salary a semimonthly check is slightly larger, but two months a year biweekly delivers a third check.
The same earnings expressed per hour, day, week, two weeks, half-month, month and year. Employers use it to quote consistent rates across contracts; workers use it to compare offers written in different units — a daily freelance rate against a monthly salary, for example.
Before — all rates here are gross. Taxes, social contributions and deductions vary too much by country, state and personal situation for one calculator to promise a net figure. For budgeting, apply your typical deduction percentage to the gross rates.