Hourly to Salary Calculator

An hourly rate is not a salary until you turn it into one, and the number you get depends on assumptions most calculators quietly bury. Suppose the rate on your offer letter is $28 an hour. Is that $58,240 a year? Only if you are paid for every one of the 52 weeks. Take two weeks off without pay and the real figure slides to about $56,000, and almost no free converter bothers to tell you that, while this one builds your unpaid time straight into the result. Type in your rate, your schedule, and how much unpaid time you actually take, and it shows both the full-year salary you would hold up against an offer and the smaller number you genuinely bank.

The tool also runs the other way. Got a salaried offer and want the hourly rate hiding inside it? Flip the toggle to salary to hourly and it works backward, which is exactly what you need when you are weighing a steady job against a contract gig or setting a freelance rate. Most tools only go one direction and leave you doing the reverse math on your phone.

Every figure lands live as you type, and you get the whole ladder: hourly, daily, weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, and annual. All of it runs in your browser, so the rate and hours you enter never leave your device, and there is no sign-up and no limit. When a result is worth keeping, the Share button copies a link that reopens this hourly to salary calculator with your exact numbers.

1. Pick a direction. Leave it on hourly to salary to turn a wage into yearly pay, or switch to salary to hourly to run it backward.
2. Enter your rate or salary. In hourly mode, type what you earn for one hour. In salary mode, type the annual figure.
3. Set your schedule. Hours per week (40 for full-time), weeks per year (52 if your time off is paid), and work days per week (5 for most, 4 on a compressed week).
4. Add any unpaid time off. In hourly mode, enter the weeks you take without pay. Leave it at 0 if your vacation is paid.
5. Read the results. The headline number updates instantly, and the breakdown below shows every pay period. Hit Share to copy a link with your numbers baked in.

The round annual figure hides a real gap, and it is the thing this tool cares about most. A salaried employee gets paid straight through their vacation, so a stated salary already covers 52 weeks. An hourly worker who takes a week off usually gets nothing for it. Plug $30 an hour, 40 hours, 52 weeks into an ordinary calculator and it proudly returns $62,400. But if three of those weeks are unpaid leave, you are only paid for 49, and your real take is closer to $58,800. That $3,600 is money you never see, the real cost of unpaid time away.

So the tool splits the two apart. The big number up top is your full-year salary equivalent, the figure that lines up fairly against a salaried offer, because that offer pays through vacation. The highlighted line right below it is what you actually earn once the unpaid weeks come out. Watch the two drift apart as you add unpaid weeks and you will see, in dollars, what your paid time off is actually worth.

Almost every other converter skips this. They assume a flawless 52-week year for everyone, which is fine for a salaried worker but does not hold for the hourly and gig workers actually searching for this.

Salaried and hourly jobs are quoted in different units, and your brain does not convert between them on the spot. Going hourly to salary lets you judge a $22 an hour offer against a $45,000 role honestly. Going the other way, salary to hourly, answers a different question. What is my time actually worth per hour? That matters when a salaried person picks up freelance work or debates trading a steady paycheck for contract rates. In reverse mode the tool divides your salary by the hours you truly work in a year, so a $45,000 salary on a 45-hour grind reveals a lower real hourly rate than the same salary at a clean 40.

The breakdown shows seven rows, and two of them cause most of the confusion out there.

First, monthly pay is not four times your weekly pay. A month runs about 4.33 weeks, not four, so the right way to find it is to divide the annual figure by 12, which spreads all 52 weeks evenly across the year. Multiply weekly by four instead and you shortchange yourself by roughly a month of income over twelve months.

Second, bi-weekly and semi-monthly are not the same thing, even though people toss the words around like they are. Bi-weekly means every two weeks, which comes to 26 paychecks a year. Semi-monthly means twice a month on set dates, which is 24. The annual pay is identical, so spreading it over 26 checks instead of 24 makes each bi-weekly one land a little smaller. If your employer switched from one to the other, this is usually where the head-scratching begins.

Daily pay leans on the work days you set. Five days splits your weekly pay five ways. Switch to a four-day week and the daily figure jumps, the same money packed into fewer days.

There is one honest caveat here. Every number is gross, the amount before tax, Social Security, Medicare, health insurance, and retirement come out. That is the right basis for comparing jobs, because deductions depend on where you live, how you file, and which benefits you take, and no converter can guess those for you. Your actual deposit will be smaller, so for what really hits your account, run the annual figure through a dedicated paycheck calculator. And if overtime is a regular part of your week, keep your base rate separate from it. An inflated rate applied to every normal hour overstates the year.