Translate your hourly wage into real paycheck numbers—annual salary, monthly deposits, biweekly checks, and weekly totals—with custom weeks and hours.
Turning an hourly rate into annual take-home helps you weigh job offers and plan your budget. Here is how to run the numbers:
Type your base hourly pay rate into the wage box. You can swap currencies up top if comparing foreign offers.
Enter the hours you typically log in a week. Full-time usually means 40 hours, while part-time roles might hover around 20 or 30.
Leave weeks per year blank for a full 52-week year. If you take two unpaid weeks off each year, enter 50 weeks instead.
Read the highlighted annual salary up top, then check the secondary cards for monthly, biweekly, weekly, and daily equivalents.
Converting hourly wages to annual pay and regular pay periods is clean multiplication and division:
Say you make $20.00 per hour and work a normal full-time schedule of 40 hours per week across a full 52-week year:
Here is how the pay adds up: multiply your hourly rate by weekly hours for $20.00 × 40 hours = $800.00 per week. Multiplying by 52 weeks gives $800.00 × 52 = $41,600.00 per year.
Dividing that annual salary by 12 months produces $41,600.00 ÷ 12 = $3,466.666..., which rounds to $3,466.67 per month. A biweekly check comes out to $800.00 × 2 = $1,600.00, and dividing weekly pay across a five-day workweek yields $800.00 ÷ 5 = $160.00 per workday. Honestly, seeing that every $1 raise amounts to about $2,000 a year puts your next performance review in clear perspective. I've never had a traditional hourly job, so I built this page as my own lesson — and now I can't un-see that every $1 an hour is worth about $2,080 a year.
Multiply your hourly wage by the hours you work each week, then multiply that weekly total by the weeks you work each year. If you work a regular 40-hour week year-round, you can multiply your hourly wage straight by 2,080 hours.
Working 40 hours a week for 52 weeks at $20.00 an hour works out to $41,600.00 in gross annual pay before taxes. Every $1.00 bump in pay adds roughly $2,080 to your year, which means $25.00 an hour comes out to $52,000.00 annually.
Adjust the weeks per year box down so it reflects only your paid time. For instance, taking two unpaid weeks drops your year to 50 weeks, which pulls a $20.00/hour wage down from $41,600.00 to $40,000.00 in annual earnings.
This tool assumes all hours are paid at your regular base rate. If you routinely put in overtime hours at time-and-a-half (1.5×) or double pay, your actual annual earnings will climb above this baseline number.
Divide the annual salary by total hours worked over the year. For a standard 2,080-hour year, taking a $52,000 salary and dividing by 2,080 gives you an hourly wage of exactly $25.00. Salary for the predictability, honestly — though anyone earning overtime should run the reverse math before choosing, because 1.5× hours changes the picture fast.
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