Hourly to salary calculator

How do you convert an hourly wage to an annual salary?

Multiply three numbers: annual pay = hourly rate x hours per week x paid weeks per year. Paid weeks are the weeks in your year minus any weeks with no pay. Everything else on the page is that annual figure divided into periods.

With the defaults, $25 an hour for 40 hours a week over 52 weeks is 40 x 52 = 2,080 paid hours, and 2,080 x $25 = $52,000 a year before tax. Divided by 12 that is $4,333.33 a month; divided by 26 it is $2,000 every two weeks; divided by 52 it is $1,000 a week.

The reverse runs on the same hours. On the Salary to hourly tab, $52,000 divided by 2,080 hours is $25.00 an hour. Change any input and both directions stay consistent, because they share one count of paid hours.

All results are gross pay. Income tax, social security or national insurance, pension contributions and other deductions are not modelled, so take-home pay will be lower.

Is a year 52 weeks, 52.14 weeks or 2,087 hours?

It depends on what you are counting, and the differences are small but real.

• 52 weeks. The round count used in most quick conversions: 52 x 40 = 2,080 hours.
• 52.14 weeks. A 365-day year divided by 7 is 52.142857 weeks: 52 full weeks and one extra day. A leap year of 366 days is 52.285714 weeks, or 52 weeks and two days.
• 2,087 hours. The US Office of Personnel Management computes hourly rates of basic pay for most federal civilian employees by dividing the annual rate by 2,087 hours, under 5 U.S.C. 5504(b). Its fact sheet explains 2,087 as the average number of work hours in a calendar year over a 28-year cycle, and notes that the divisor was 2,080 until 1984.

The arithmetic shows why 2,087 sits where it does: a year averaging 365.25 days (three common years and one leap year) holds 365.25 / 7 = 52.18 weeks, which is 2,087.14 hours at 40 a week.

At $25 an hour and 40 hours a week, the four counts give $52,000, $52,142.86, $52,285.71 and $52,175 a year. Read the other way, a $52,000 salary is $25.00 an hour on 2,080 hours but $24.92 on 2,087. The second chart under the calculator draws this comparison for your own numbers. Type 52.14 in the weeks field for a close match to the 365-day year in every result.

Hourly to salary conversion table

For a 40-hour week and 52 paid weeks, each dollar an hour is worth $2,080 a year. The table converts common rates both ways; the right-hand columns divide round salaries by 2,080 hours and by 2,087 hours.

A quick mental version multiplies the hourly rate by 2,000, which is 40 hours over 50 weeks: $25 becomes $50,000. That is the same as allowing two unpaid weeks, so it runs $2,000 below the full 52-week figure at this rate.

How do you convert a salary to an hourly rate?

Divide the annual salary by the paid hours in a year: hourly rate = annual salary / (hours per week x paid weeks). $60,000 over 2,080 hours is $28.85 an hour. If the salary is quoted monthly, multiply by 12 first.

California's Labor Commissioner's Office describes the same steps for finding a salaried employee's regular rate of pay in its overtime questions and answers: multiply the monthly pay by 12, divide by 52 weeks, then divide by 40 hours. A $5,000 monthly salary becomes $60,000 a year, $1,153.85 a week and $28.85 an hour.

The hours you divide by matter as much as the salary. For a 48-hour working week, AED 120,000 a year at 48 hours a week over 52 weeks is 2,496 hours, or AED 48.08 an hour. The same salary over a 40-hour week would be AED 57.69 an hour, because fewer hours share the same pay.

An hourly figure worked out from a salary is a comparison tool, not a contract term. If your contract sets a different divisor for overtime or deductions, that divisor is the one that applies to you.

Monthly, biweekly and weekly pay from an hourly rate

A month is not four weeks. Twelve months hold 52 weeks, so an average month is 52 / 12 = 4.33 weeks. At $1,000 a week that is $4,333.33 a month. Multiplying the weekly pay by 4 instead gives $4,000 a month and $48,000 a year, which understates the true annual figure by $4,000.

Two schedules are easy to confuse:

• Every two weeks (biweekly or fortnightly): 26 paydays in a 52-week year. Annual pay / 26, which is $2,000 with the defaults.
• Twice a month (semimonthly): 24 paydays, usually on fixed dates. Annual pay / 24, which is $2,166.67 with the defaults.

Twenty-six fortnights cover 364 days, so a fixed two-weekly payday drifts one day earlier in the calendar each year, or two after a leap day. From time to time a calendar year therefore holds 27 two-weekly paydays, and a salary divided by 26 and paid on each of them adds up to 27/26 of the annual figure in that calendar year.

The table under the calculator lists your pay per hour, per full paid week, weekly and two-weekly on average, twice a month, monthly, quarterly and yearly.

Worked examples in pounds, euros and dollars

• UK National Living Wage. gov.uk lists the National Living Wage for workers aged 21 and over as £12.71 an hour from April 2026. At 37.5 hours a week for 52 weeks, that is 1,950 hours and £24,784.50 a year, or £2,065.38 a month, before tax. At 40 hours a week it is £26,436.80.
• Euros, with unpaid weeks. €18 an hour for 35 hours a week, with 4 unpaid weeks, is 35 x 48 = 1,680 paid hours and €30,240 a year. A full paid week brings €630, but spread across all 52 weeks the year averages €581.54 a week and €2,520 a month.
• Dollars, part time. $25 an hour for 20 hours a week over 52 weeks is 1,040 hours, or $26,000 a year: exactly half the full-time figure, because pay scales in a straight line with hours.

The currency selector formats every figure in any of 24 currencies. It converts nothing.

How unpaid weeks and part-time hours change the answer

Each input moves the annual figure in a straight line, which you can check against the first chart:

• Hours per week. Each extra weekly hour adds one hourly rate times the paid weeks. At $25 and 52 weeks, every additional hour a week is worth $1,300 a year.
• Unpaid weeks. Each unpaid week removes one full week of pay. With two unpaid weeks, $25 x 40 drops from $52,000 to $50,000, and the weekly average across the year falls from $1,000 to $961.54 even though a working week still pays $1,000.
• Weeks per year. A 365-day year is 52 weeks and one day, and that day is worth $142.86 at the defaults. Typing 52.14 in the field adds $140.

On the Salary to hourly tab the direction reverses: more hours or more paid weeks spread the same salary thinner and lower the hourly rate, while unpaid weeks raise the hourly rate implied by a fixed annual sum.

Paid vacation and public holidays are not unpaid weeks. If you are paid for them, leave them in the year.

How to convert hourly to salary in Excel or Google Sheets

Put the hourly rate in A2, hours per week in B2, weeks per year in C2 and unpaid weeks in D2.

• Annual pay: =A2*B2*(C2-D2), which returns 52,000 for the defaults.
• Monthly: =A2*B2*(C2-D2)/12, which returns 4,333.33.
• Every two weeks: =A2*B2*(C2-D2)/C2*2, which returns 2,000.
• Salary to hourly: with the salary in E2, =E2/(B2*(C2-D2)), which returns 25 for $52,000.

To use the 2,087-hour count for a 40-hour week, replace B2*(C2-D2) with 2087. Format the money cells to two decimals to see cents.

Common mistakes, what this calculator leaves out, and a glossary

• Multiplying a week by 4 for a month. A month averages 4.33 weeks.
• Treating biweekly and twice-monthly pay as equal. 26 paydays and 24 paydays split the same salary differently.
• Comparing gross with net. An offer is usually quoted before tax; your bank account receives pay after deductions.
• Forgetting overtime and shift premiums. This page assumes one flat rate for every hour.

Not modelled: income tax, social security or national insurance, pension and benefit deductions, overtime, bonuses, commission and allowances. For extra hours at a higher rate, use the overtime calculator; to see what a pay increase is worth after inflation, use the pay raise calculator.

Gross pay: pay before any deductions. Paid weeks: weeks per year minus unpaid weeks. Biweekly: every two weeks, 26 times in a 52-week year. Semimonthly: twice a month, 24 times a year. Divisor: the number of hours an annual figure is divided by to give an hourly one, such as 2,080 or 2,087.

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