Hourly to Salary Calculator

Hourly pay and an annual salary are two ways of describing the same thing — what you earn for your work — but they're quoted on very different scales, which makes comparing jobs surprisingly tricky. Converting between them comes down to one idea: your annual pay is your hourly rate multiplied by the number of hours you work in a year.

The standard assumption for full-time work is 40 hours a week across 52 weeks, which is 2,080 hours a year. At that level, the math is quick: an hourly wage times 2,080 gives the annual salary, and an annual salary divided by 2,080 gives the hourly rate. A common shortcut is that an hourly wage roughly doubled gives the salary in thousands — $25 an hour is about $52,000 a year. Going the other way, a $60,000 salary works out to roughly $28.85 an hour.

The number of weeks matters more than people expect. If you take two weeks of unpaid leave, you're really working 50 weeks, which lowers the annual figure. Part-time schedules, overtime, and seasonal work all change the hours-per-year total and therefore the conversion. That's why this calculator lets you set both hours per week and weeks per year rather than locking in 2,080.

There are two important caveats. First, these are gross figures — before income tax, retirement contributions and other deductions — so your take-home pay will be lower. Second, a salary and an hourly rate aren't always equivalent even at the same annual number: salaried roles often include paid time off, benefits and bonuses, while hourly roles may offer overtime pay that salaried workers don't get. When comparing offers, look beyond the headline number to the total package. Still, converting to a common basis — usually annual salary — is the essential first step in any fair comparison.