Hourly to Salary Calculator

A salary is the hourly rate times the hours you are paid for in a year.

Yearly pay = hourly rate × hours per week × paid weeks per year

Hourly rate = yearly pay ÷ (hours per week × paid weeks per year)

The first formula turns a wage into a salary. The second runs the other way, which is the question when an offer quotes a yearly figure and your current job pays by the hour. The calculator does both: pick what you are paid per, type the amount, and every other period fills in. Monthly and paycheck figures are the yearly pay divided by 12, 24 or 26. Days per week only splits a week into days, so it never changes the yearly figure.

At $25 an hour and 40 hours a week, the salary is $52,000.

Those are the numbers the calculator opens with: $25 an hour, 40 hours a week over 5 days, and 52 paid weeks.

• Per day: $25 × 8 hours = $200
• Per week: $25 × 40 hours = $1,000
• Per year: $1,000 × 52 weeks = $52,000, from 2,080 paid hours
• Per month: $52,000 ÷ 12 = $4,333.33
• Per semimonthly paycheck: $52,000 ÷ 24 = $2,166.67
• Per biweekly paycheck: $52,000 ÷ 26 = $2,000

Going the other way, a $60,000 salary at the same hours is $60,000 ÷ 2,080 = $28.85 an hour, $1,153.85 a week and $2,307.69 a biweekly paycheck. A popular shortcut, doubling the hourly rate and adding three zeros, assumes 2,000 hours a year. It turns $25 into $50,000, which is $2,000 short of the 2,080-hour figure: the same as two unpaid weeks.

A month of pay is 4.33 weeks, not four.

Fifty-two weeks divided by 12 months is 4.33 weeks, so $1,000 a week is $4,333.33 a month, not $4,000. The same gap explains why a semimonthly paycheck is bigger than a biweekly one from the same salary: $52,000 ÷ 24 is $2,166.67, and $52,000 ÷ 26 is $2,000. Neither schedule pays more over a year. Twenty-six paychecks across 12 months means two months a year bring a third paycheck.

The calendar adds one more wrinkle. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management notes that there are usually 26 pay dates a year, and that over several years employees can expect a calendar year with 27. Keep a $2,000 biweekly paycheck the same and that year pays 27 × $2,000 = $54,000. That is why the paycheck figures here are the salary divided evenly, not a count of the paydays in one particular year.

Federal pay divides by 2,087 hours because calendar years differ in length.

The 2,080 in the worked example is 52 weeks of 40 hours. OPM's fact sheet explains why federal pay stopped using it: a calendar year has 365 or 366 days, so it can hold more paid workdays than a 52-week year. Over the 28 years it takes the calendar to repeat, 7 years have 260 workdays (2,080 hours), 17 have 261 (2,088 hours) and 4 have 262 (2,096 hours), an average of 2,087.143 hours. For most federal civilian employees, the hourly rate of basic pay is the annual rate divided by 2,087, as 5 U.S.C. 5504(b) requires.

For someone paid by the hour for every weekday, the extra days are real pay. At $25 an hour and 8 hours a day, a 261-workday year pays $52,200 and a 262-workday year pays $52,400, against $52,000 in a 260-workday year. For a salaried employee the salary stays put and the hourly rate it implies moves by a few cents: $52,000 ÷ 2,087 is $24.92 rather than $25.00. Keep 52 paid weeks for a standard comparison, and use the business days calculator to count the working days in a particular year.

Unpaid weeks lower the salary but leave the hourly rate where it is.

Paid weeks per year is 52 when vacation and holidays are paid. Lower it for time off that is not: $25 an hour over 50 paid weeks is 2,000 paid hours and $50,000 a year, so each unpaid week costs $1,000 before tax. The month and paycheck figures fall with it, to $4,166.67 a month and $1,923.08 a biweekly paycheck, while the hour, day and week figures stay the rate for a week you are paid. Seasonal and school-year jobs work the same way: enter the weeks you are paid for and the hours you work in them.

Hours per week should be your regular hours. If your schedule changes from week to week, the hours calculator turns start and finish times into hours, and the time card calculator adds up a whole week. Overtime is not part of the conversion: enter regular hours only, and work out overtime pay with the overtime calculator.

Three national figures put an hourly rate in context.

The calculator compares your pay with each of these, read from their own pages on October 17, 2026.

• The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, in effect since July 24, 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. At 2,080 hours that is $15,080 a year. Where a state sets a higher minimum, the DOL says the employee is entitled to the higher of the two.
• Average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls were $37.81 in September 2026, up 3.0% over 12 months, in the BLS Employment Situation release of October 2, 2026. The average workweek was 34.4 hours, not 40, so the average week came to about $1,300.66.
• Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers were $1,251 in the second quarter of 2026, in the BLS Usual Weekly Earnings release, or $65,052 over 52 weeks. The median for women was $1,131 a week and for men $1,380.

An average and a median answer different questions. The average hourly figure covers every private payroll job, part-time included, and moves with the highest wages. The median is the middle full-time worker: half earn more and half earn less. At $25 an hour and 40 hours, the worked example is 66.1% of the private average hourly rate and 79.9% of the full-time median week.

For managers, the same conversion shows what a competing offer is worth.

When someone on your team weighs a salaried offer against an hourly job, this is the arithmetic they are doing. Run it before the conversation: if $28.85 an hour and $60,000 a year are the same pay at 40 hours, a $65,000 offer is a real raise, and the salary increase calculator shows what it is worth per paycheck and after inflation. By the time an offer is on the table, any answer is a counteroffer, and the counteroffer guide explains why a matching raise fixes pay and usually nothing else. TeamPredict reads public LinkedIn signals to flag resignation risk early, so the conversation about pay can happen before anyone starts comparing offers.