Salary Calculator

Type in a wage at any pay period and this turns it into every other one, live, free, no sign-up. Enter an hourly rate and read the annual. Enter a yearly salary and see what it works out to per hour, per day, per week, every two weeks, twice a month, and per month.

Most salary calculators quietly bake in 2,080 hours, that's 40 a week times 52 weeks, and hand you a single figure. That works if you're salaried with paid vacation, but it's wrong for a contractor, someone paid hourly, or anyone who takes unpaid weeks. The two boxes here, hours per week and weeks per year, are the actual point of the tool. Set them to your real schedule and every row recomputes the instant you change a field.

1. Enter the amount you already know. Whatever figure you have in hand, a rate, a paycheck, or a salary.
2. Pick the period it's paid at from the dropdown. Hourly, daily, weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, or annual.
3. Set hours per week if yours isn't 40. This box drives the hourly and daily conversions and nothing else.
4. Set weeks per year if yours isn't 52. This is the one that separates an honest answer from a lazy one, more on that below.
5. Read the table. Your entered value is highlighted, every other row is the equivalent at that period.

Empty or nonsense input shows a plain prompt instead of a broken result, so you can't crash it by fat-fingering a box. Comparing a $34/hour contract against a $64,000 offer? Type $34 an hour, read the annual row, done in a second.

This is what separates the tool from the ten-second widgets. 2,080 hours is a convention rather than a rule anyone has to follow. It assumes you get paid for all 52 weeks, including the ones you spend on a beach. For a salaried employee with PTO that's genuinely true, the check lands whether you're at your desk or not. For anyone paid only when they actually work, it's wrong, and the gap is bigger than people expect.

Say you contract at $50 an hour and, after holidays, sick days, and the dead weeks between clients, you realistically bill 46 weeks a year. The lazy math says $50 times 2,080, or $104,000. The honest math says $50 times (40 times 46), which is $92,000. That's a twelve-thousand-dollar gap, and it comes entirely from the weeks assumption. Drop the weeks-per-year box to 46 and the tool shows you the real number.

The same box changes how you compare two job offers. Two offers, both $60,000, both 40-hour weeks. One gives you 10 days of PTO, the other gives 25. On paper the salary is identical, but the second one pays you the same money for three fewer weeks of actual work, so your true rate per hour worked is higher. To see it, leave the salary in the annual box and lower weeks per year to the weeks you're really on the clock, roughly 50 for the first job and 47 for the second. Watch the hourly row climb as the weeks drop. Same paycheck, better deal, and now you've got a number to put on it instead of a vague feeling that the extra vacation is worth something.

People swap these two words like they're interchangeable and then wonder why a paycheck came in light. They're different, and the difference is real money per check.

Bi-weekly is every two weeks, a check every 14 days, which lands 26 times a year. Twice a year you get three checks in one month instead of two, the months budgeters look forward to. Semi-monthly is twice a month, usually the 15th and the last day, so 24 checks a year, always two per month, no surprise third one. Because you're splitting the same salary into 24 chunks instead of 26, each semi-monthly check comes out a little fatter. On $52,000 that's $2,000 bi-weekly against $2,166.67 semi-monthly. Over a full year the totals match to the penny. The rhythm is what changes, and if you budget against a fixed paycheck amount, mixing them up quietly throws your whole month off. The tool stacks both rows so you can read the gap for your own salary.

Every figure here is gross, before anything gets taken out. Tax, Social Security, Medicare, your health premium, your 401(k), none of it is subtracted. The $52,000 salary that reads as $25 an hour is not the $25 that lands in your account, and that is deliberate. A period converter has exactly one correct answer and it's the pre-tax one, because your take-home depends on your state, your filing status, and how much you tuck into retirement, none of which a wage converter can know about you. When you need the after-tax figure, reach for a paycheck calculator that asks about your taxes.