About the Hourly to Salary Converter
This hourly to salary converter turns a rate for any pay period — hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly — into all the others, using the hours and days you actually work rather than assuming a fixed 9-to-5. It's built for comparing job offers quoted in different periods, checking what an hourly contract rate works out to annually, or seeing what an annual salary breaks down to per hour.
How to use the Hourly to Salary Converter
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Enter the amount and choose which period it's quoted for — hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or annual.
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Set how many hours and days you actually work per week, and how many weeks per year (52 minus unpaid leave, if any).
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Read off the equivalent amount for every other period instantly.
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Adjust the schedule fields to compare offers with different working patterns on equal terms.
What people use it for
Comparing a contract rate to a salaried offer
See what a $45/hour contract role actually works out to annually, next to a salaried offer quoted at $90,000/year, using the same assumed hours for both.
Negotiating a raise in the period you think in
If a raise is discussed as '$3 more an hour' but you budget monthly, convert it instantly to see the real monthly and annual impact.
Working out a freelance day rate
Start from a target annual income and work backward to the day rate needed, given your realistic billable days per week.
Why 'hours per week' and 'days per week' both matter
The calculator derives an hourly rate first from whatever period you enter, then rebuilds every other figure from that hourly rate using your actual schedule. A 40-hour week split across 5 days gives 8 hours/day; the same 40 hours split across 4 days gives 10 hours/day — the weekly and annual totals stay identical, but the daily figure changes, which is why both fields are asked for separately rather than assumed.
Why the monthly figure is annual ÷ 12
Months don't have a consistent number of working days — some have 20, some 23 — so there's no single 'hours in a month' that's exact. Dividing the annual total by 12 gives the standard average monthly figure used on pay slips and in salary negotiations, rather than a number that would shift depending on which specific month it's calculated for.
Tips
- All figures shown are gross — before tax, insurance or any other deduction — since take-home pay depends on factors this tool has no visibility into.
- If you get paid time off, set 'weeks per year' to the weeks you actually work rather than 52, so the hourly rate implied by an annual salary comes out accurately.
- For overtime-heavy roles, run the calculation once for base hours and once including typical overtime to see both figures side by side.