Convert an hourly wage to an annual salary or a salary back to an hourly rate, with paid or unpaid time off handled separately.
The length of your work year — 52 for a standard job, fewer for a term or seasonal contract. Do not subtract holidays here; enter those below.
Vacation and holidays taken inside that work year. Whether it is paid changes the answer, so the calculator asks rather than assuming.
Based on 40 hours a week for 52 weeks. Gross pay, before taxes.
Reference: annual salary by hourly wage at full-time hours.
| Hourly | Monthly | Annual salary |
|---|---|---|
| $15.00/hr | $2,600 | $31,200 |
| $18.00/hr | $3,120 | $37,440 |
| $20.00/hr | $3,467 | $41,600 |
| $25.00/hr | $4,333 | $52,000 |
| $30.00/hr | $5,200 | $62,400 |
| $40.00/hr | $6,933 | $83,200 |
| $50.00/hr | $8,667 | $104,000 |
Estimates for educational purposes only. Figures are gross pay and assume steady hours; actual pay varies with overtime, shift differentials, and unpaid absence. The arithmetic is the same in any currency — only the symbol shown is US dollars.
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Weighing a $25-an-hour job against a $55,000 salary? This converter runs both directions and, unlike a bare 40 × 52 multiplication, asks the question that actually changes the answer: is your time off paid or unpaid? Paid leave raises what an hour is really worth; unpaid leave lowers the salary instead. It also separates what a working day and week earn from what each paycheck carries, which are different numbers whenever you work fewer than 52 weeks.
The base conversion is hourly rate × hours per week × the weeks you are paid for. At 40 hours across 52 weeks that is 2,080 hours, so $25 an hour is $52,000 a year. Two adjustments matter. First, paid leave: you are still paid for 52 weeks but work only 50, so 2,080 paid hours become 2,000 worked hours and your effective rate rises to $26. Second, unpaid leave: you are paid for 50 weeks, the salary drops to $50,000, and your effective rate stays $25 — an unpaid week cannot make an hour worth more. Both figures are gross, before any tax.
Salary Conversion Formula
Put an hourly offer and a salaried offer on the same annual basis.
Derive an hourly rate from the annual income you need, on realistic billable weeks.
Price a school-year, harvest, or contract role that does not run 52 weeks.
See what each paycheck carries, separately from what a working week earns.
Most converters apply one time-off field both ways and quietly give an hourly worker a salary they never earn. This one asks.
Put an hourly job and a salaried one on the same annual basis before you decide.
See what each hour you actually work is worth once paid leave is counted.
What a working week earns and what a paycheck carries diverge as soon as your year is shorter than 52 weeks.
Handles term contracts, seasonal work, and part-time days, not just full-time 40 × 52.
Multiply your hourly rate by hours per week and by the weeks you are paid for. $25 an hour × 40 hours × 52 weeks = $52,000 a year. If some of your weeks are unpaid, count only the paid ones.
Divide by your paid hours: $60,000 ÷ (40 hours × 52 weeks = 2,080 hours) ≈ $28.85 an hour. Fewer hours a week raise the rate; more hours lower it.
2,080 hours — 40 × 52 — is the usual full-time figure, but US federal pay uses 2,087. A 1981 GAO study found that across the 28-year calendar repeat cycle a year averages 2,087 work hours, and Public Law 97-253 adopted that divisor. A 37.5-hour week gives 1,950 and a 35-hour week 1,820; Spain and much of Latin America start from an agreed annual figure instead, commonly 1,760 or 1,800 hours.
Because a calendar year is 365 or 366 days, not exactly 52 weeks. Over the 28 years it takes the calendar to repeat, 4 years hold 262 workdays (2,096 hours), 17 hold 261 (2,088), and 7 hold 260 (2,080) — averaging 2,087.143. US federal pay rounds that to 2,087, so a federal salary converts to a slightly lower hourly rate than a private-sector 2,080 divisor gives on the same salary.
If it is paid, your salary is unchanged and your effective hourly rate rises, because the same money covers fewer worked hours. If it is unpaid, your salary falls and your effective rate stays where it was. Salaried roles usually mean the first; many hourly and shift roles mean the second.
Pay divided by the hours you actually work, rather than the hours you are paid for. A $52,000 salary with 2 weeks of paid leave is 2,000 worked hours, so about $26 an hour instead of the $25 nominal rate.
Because they answer different questions. A working week at $20 an hour over 40 hours earns $800. If your year is only 48 weeks, the annual is $38,400 and dividing by 52 gives $738 — an average that includes weeks you are not paid for. This calculator shows both and labels which is which.
Before. This is a gross pay-rate converter. For take-home pay after Social Security, Medicare, and income tax, use the Salary Calculator or the Paycheck Calculator.
Bi-weekly pays every two weeks, so 26 cheques a year; semi-monthly pays twice a month, so 24. The annual total is identical but each semi-monthly cheque is larger, and bi-weekly gives you two months a year with three paydays.
Yes. The arithmetic is currency-agnostic — only the symbol shown is US dollars. Enter your figures in whatever you are paid in and every result holds.
Work backwards from the income you need, then shrink the year. Billable weeks are rarely 52 — allow for holidays, sick days, and unbilled admin. Target income ÷ (billable hours a week × billable weeks) gives a floor, before self-employment tax and unreimbursed costs.
Yes. Hourly roles often lack benefits that salaried roles include. Employer health coverage alone can be worth $5,000–$15,000 a year, and retirement matching, paid leave, and overtime eligibility all shift the real comparison.
Non-exempt hourly workers in the US earn at least 1.5× for hours past 40 in a week, so regular overtime lifts real annual earnings well above the base rate. Estimate it with the Overtime Calculator; this page converts a steady rate.