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Salary to Hourly Calculator (and Hourly to Salary)

Enter what you are paid, per hour or per year (or per paycheck), to see the same pay per hour, day, week, biweekly paycheck, twice-monthly paycheck, month and year. Change the hours per week, unpaid weeks off and overtime to match your job. Gross pay, before taxes. Nothing leaves your browser.

Gross payBaseWith overtime

Paid by the hour? Clockbird (iPhone) shows what you've earned as you work: clock in with one tap and it adds up your hours, overtime and pay for the shift, the week and the pay period. For one week's time card, use the free time card calculator.

How to convert hourly pay to a yearly salary

Multiply the hourly rate by the hours you work in a year. Full time is 40 hours × 52 weeks = 2,080 hours, so $20 an hour is $20 × 2,080 = $41,600 a year. Salaried jobs pay for holidays and vacation, so they use all 52 weeks. If you're paid by the hour and take two weeks off unpaid, set "Paid weeks per year" to 50: $20 an hour becomes $40,000.

Quick estimate: double the hourly rate and add three zeros ($20 → about $40,000). It comes out about 4% low, because a year is 2,080 work hours, not 2,000.

How to convert a salary to an hourly rate

Divide the salary by 2,080 (or by your own hours × weeks). $50,000 a year is $50,000 ÷ 2,080 = $24.04 an hour. Quick estimate: halve the salary and drop three zeros ($60,000 → about $30; exactly $28.85). If you regularly work more than 40 hours on a salary, enter your real hours per week: 50 hours a week on $60,000 is $23.08 an hour.

Hourly to yearly salary chart

Full time (40 hours a week, 52 weeks), before taxes. Biweekly = one of 26 paychecks.

HourlyYearlyMonthlyBiweeklyWeekly
$15$31,200$2,600$1,200$600
$16$33,280$2,773$1,280$640
$17$35,360$2,947$1,360$680
$18$37,440$3,120$1,440$720
$19$39,520$3,293$1,520$760
$20$41,600$3,467$1,600$800
$22$45,760$3,813$1,760$880
$25$52,000$4,333$2,000$1,000
$28$58,240$4,853$2,240$1,120
$30$62,400$5,200$2,400$1,200
$35$72,800$6,067$2,800$1,400
$40$83,200$6,933$3,200$1,600
$45$93,600$7,800$3,600$1,800
$50$104,000$8,667$4,000$2,000

Salary to hourly chart

SalaryHourlyMonthlyBiweeklyWeekly
$30,000$14.42$2,500$1,154$577
$35,000$16.83$2,917$1,346$673
$40,000$19.23$3,333$1,538$769
$45,000$21.63$3,750$1,731$865
$50,000$24.04$4,167$1,923$962
$55,000$26.44$4,583$2,115$1,058
$60,000$28.85$5,000$2,308$1,154
$65,000$31.25$5,417$2,500$1,250
$70,000$33.65$5,833$2,692$1,346
$75,000$36.06$6,250$2,885$1,442
$80,000$38.46$6,667$3,077$1,538
$90,000$43.27$7,500$3,462$1,731
$100,000$48.08$8,333$3,846$1,923
$120,000$57.69$10,000$4,615$2,308

Biweekly paychecks: 26 or 27?

Paid every two weeks, you normally get 26 paychecks, but about every 11 years the calendar fits 27 paydays into one year (for some employers 2026 is one of them, because the January 1, 2027 payday moves back to December 31). Salaried employers then either keep the usual check (and pay more that year) or divide the salary by 27, which makes each check about 3.7% smaller. The table above shows both. See every payday of your year in the pay period calendar.

FAQ

Does this include overtime?

Enter your usual overtime hours per week and the "with overtime" column adds them at time and a half (1.5 × your hourly rate), which is the US federal rule for hours over 40 in a workweek for non-exempt employees. Many salaried employees are exempt from overtime. For daily overtime rules (California and others), use the overtime calculator. For 2025–2028, half your rate for each overtime hour past 40 is deductible from federal income tax: see the no tax on overtime calculator.

Is this before or after taxes?

Before. These are gross amounts. Your take-home pay is lower after federal and state income tax, Social Security and Medicare, and any benefits deducted from your paycheck.

How many work hours are in a year?

2,080 at 40 hours a week (40 × 52). 2026 and 2027 both have 261 weekdays, which is 2,088 hours, but salaries are almost always quoted on 2,080.