What this salary to hourly calculator does
This salary to hourly calculator converts a yearly, monthly, semi-monthly, biweekly or weekly salary into the hourly wage it works out to. Type the salary, choose how often it is paid, and the tool divides it by the hours you are paid for in a year. The default is a standard full-time schedule of 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, which is 2,080 hours, so a $50,000 salary shows as $24.04 an hour.
Most converters stop at that one division. This one also shows the rate for the hours you actually work once paid time off is taken out, adds regular overtime for non-exempt roles, shows how your hourly rate shrinks when the workweek grows, and compares two job offers on the same footing. Every figure is gross, meaning before tax and other deductions.
How to use the calculator
- Enter the Salary and choose the Pay period: Yearly, Monthly, Semi-monthly (twice a month), Biweekly (every two weeks) or Weekly.
50000,50,000,$50kand50k/yrall work. The Yearly chips load a common salary from $30k to $100k, and Currency switches between USD, GBP, EUR, CAD and AUD. - Set the Schedule. Hours per week, Days per week and Weeks per year start at 40, 5 and 52. The presets fill all three: Standard (40 h × 52 wk), Part-time (20 h), 32-hour week, 45-hour week, 50-hour week, 50 weeks (2 unpaid) and School year (40 wk).
- Optional: add Paid time off. Enter the vacation, holiday and sick days you are paid for, or use the Quick fill buttons for 10, 15, 20 or 25 days.
- Optional: add Overtime on top of salary if you are paid extra for hours beyond your regular ones. Enter the overtime hours per week and pick a pay rate from 1.25x to 2.5x.
- Read the result. The large tile is the hourly rate. Per hour worked appears once you add paid days off, and Average with overtime once you add overtime. Below are annual, monthly, semi-monthly, biweekly, weekly and daily pay, plus a step-by-step section called The math.
- Copy summary and Copy hourly rate copy the results, Download CSV saves them with your assumptions and the salary table, and Reset restores the defaults.
- Scroll down for a salary table from $30,000 to $200,000, the same salary at different weekly hours, and a two-offer comparison.
If a value cannot be true, such as more than 168 hours in a week, the field turns red and explains why.
The formula and the 2,080-hour rule
annual salary = amount × pay periods per year (12, 24, 26 or 52; 1 if already yearly)
paid hours = hours per week × weeks per year
hourly rate = annual salary ÷ paid hours
At $50,000 a year, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks: 40 × 52 = 2,080 paid hours, and 50,000 ÷ 2,080 = $24.04 an hour. Every other pay period comes from the same annual figure:
- Monthly: $50,000 ÷ 12 = $4,166.67
- Semi-monthly (24 paychecks): ÷ 24 = $2,083.33
- Biweekly (26 paychecks): ÷ 26 = $1,923.08
- Weekly: ÷ 52 = $961.54
- Daily: ÷ 260 working days = $192.31
The 2,080-hour rule is simply 40 hours × 52 weeks, or 260 weekdays × 8 hours. For mental math, drop the last three digits of the salary, halve it, and take off about 4%: $50,000 becomes 50, then 25, then roughly $24.
A calendar year is really about 52.18 weeks, and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management divides federal annual pay by 2,087 hours, a long-run average of working days. The gap is about 0.3%: $50,000 is $23.96 an hour on 2,087 hours. To use that convention here, enter 52.175 weeks per year. For the reverse direction, use the hourly to salary calculator.
Worked examples: $50,000 and $80,000
$50,000, standard schedule. $24.04 an hour, $961.54 a week, $4,166.67 a month. Set Weeks per year to 50 for two unpaid weeks and you divide by 2,000 hours instead: $25.00 an hour.
$50,000, longer weeks. The salary stays put, so the rate falls. At 45 hours a week you divide by 2,340 hours and get $21.37. At 50 hours it is 50,000 ÷ 2,600 = $19.23.
$80,000, standard schedule. 80,000 ÷ 2,080 = $38.46 an hour, $1,538.46 a week and $6,666.67 a month. At 50 hours a week it drops to $30.77. On a four-day, 32-hour week the same salary is 80,000 ÷ 1,664 = $48.08.
Non-exempt with overtime. A $52,000 salary covering 40 hours is $25.00 an hour. Add 5 overtime hours a week at 1.5x: overtime pays $37.50 an hour, or $9,750 over 52 weeks, so total pay is $61,750 for 2,340 hours. That averages $26.39 an hour, against $22.22 if the same $52,000 had to cover all 2,340 hours.
Salary to hourly conversion table
These figures assume 40 hours a week for 52 weeks (2,080 hours), before tax. The table on the page recalculates with your own schedule and paid time off.
| Annual salary | Monthly | Biweekly | Weekly | Hourly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $30,000 | $2,500.00 | $1,153.85 | $576.92 | $14.42 |
| $40,000 | $3,333.33 | $1,538.46 | $769.23 | $19.23 |
| $50,000 | $4,166.67 | $1,923.08 | $961.54 | $24.04 |
| $60,000 | $5,000.00 | $2,307.69 | $1,153.85 | $28.85 |
| $70,000 | $5,833.33 | $2,692.31 | $1,346.15 | $33.65 |
| $80,000 | $6,666.67 | $3,076.92 | $1,538.46 | $38.46 |
| $90,000 | $7,500.00 | $3,461.54 | $1,730.77 | $43.27 |
| $100,000 | $8,333.33 | $3,846.15 | $1,923.08 | $48.08 |
| $120,000 | $10,000.00 | $4,615.38 | $2,307.69 | $57.69 |
| $150,000 | $12,500.00 | $5,769.23 | $2,884.62 | $72.12 |
| $200,000 | $16,666.67 | $7,692.31 | $3,846.15 | $96.15 |
Each extra $10,000 of salary adds $4.81 an hour on this schedule. The calculator shows the same idea for your own hours as "Each extra $1,000 of salary adds".
Paid time off and unpaid weeks
Two different things reduce the hours behind a salary, and they work differently.
Paid days off are vacation, holidays and sick days you are paid for. They do not change the standard hourly rate, because your salary already covers them. They do change what you earn for the time you are on the job. Take $50,000 with 20 paid days off and 8-hour days: 160 paid hours are not worked, leaving 1,920. The rate on paid hours is still $24.04, but you earn $26.04 for each hour you work. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey data puts average paid vacation at roughly 10 to 14 days after one year of service, depending on employer size, plus about 8 paid holidays, so 15 to 25 days is a realistic range.
Unpaid weeks are weeks you do not work and are not paid, so they belong in Weeks per year. A teacher on a $48,000 school-year contract who works 40 weeks of 40 hours divides by 1,600 hours and earns $30.00 an hour, not the $23.08 a 52-week schedule would suggest.
Salaried, exempt and non-exempt: what happens to overtime
Being paid a salary does not by itself decide whether you earn overtime. Under U.S. federal law, most non-exempt employees must be paid at least 1.5 times their regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek. An exempt employee gets no overtime, but only if two tests are met: a salary at or above a minimum level, and job duties that fit an exemption such as executive, administrative or professional. At the time of writing, the federal minimum for most exempt white-collar roles is $684 a week ($35,568 a year), and some states set it higher. This is general information, not legal advice.
That gives two ways to use the calculator when you work long weeks:
- Exempt, or a salary meant to cover every hour: put your real weekly hours in Hours per week to see what you effectively earn per hour worked.
- Non-exempt, with overtime paid on top: keep regular hours in Hours per week and enter the extra hours under Overtime, with your employer's multiplier.
Some states add daily overtime, so confirm the details with your employer or state labor agency.
Comparing two job offers
Two salaries are only comparable when they cover the same hours, so the comparison section works out pay per hour worked for both offers.
Say Offer A pays $80,000 for 50-hour weeks with 15 paid days off, and Offer B pays $70,000 for 40-hour weeks with 20 paid days off. Offer A covers 2,600 paid hours, 2,450 of them worked, so it pays $32.65 per hour worked. Offer B covers 2,080 paid hours, 1,920 worked, so it pays $36.46. The lower salary pays $3.81 more per hour worked (+11.7%). Benefits, commuting and bonuses are not in the numbers, so treat the result as one input, not the decision. To put a raise or a pay gap in percentage terms, use the percentage calculator.
Tips and common mistakes
- Dividing a monthly salary by 4 for weekly pay. A month averages 4.33 weeks, so that overstates weekly pay by about 8%. Convert to yearly first, then divide by 52.
- Mixing up biweekly and semi-monthly. Biweekly is 26 paychecks a year, semi-monthly is 24. A $2,000 paycheck is $52,000 a year if biweekly and $48,000 if semi-monthly.
- Counting overtime you only sometimes work. Average it: 100 overtime hours over 50 weeks is 2 hours a week.
- Typing 50 for a $50,000 salary. Type 50k or 50,000. A warning appears when the result is below $1 an hour.
Privacy and limitations
Everything is calculated in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded, and your entries are kept only in this tab's session storage, which clears when you close the tab.
The results are gross estimates for information only. The calculator applies your inputs as entered and does not model taxes, benefits, bonuses, commissions, shift differentials, daily overtime rules or payroll rounding, so compare those separately. This is not payroll, tax, legal or financial advice.
Frequently asked questions
How do I convert a salary to an hourly wage?
Divide the annual salary by the number of hours you are paid for in a year. For a standard full-time job that is 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, or 2,080 hours, so a $65,000 salary is $65,000 ÷ 2,080 = $31.25 an hour. If your schedule differs, multiply your own hours per week by your own weeks per year and divide by that number instead.
$50,000 a year is how much an hour? What about $60,000 or $80,000?
On a 40-hour week for 52 weeks (2,080 hours), $50,000 a year is $24.04 an hour, $60,000 is $28.85 and $80,000 is $38.46, all before tax. Two unpaid weeks turn the $50,000 into $25.00 an hour, because you work 50 weeks instead of 52. Working 50 hours a week instead of 40 drops the $60,000 rate to $23.08.
How do I convert a monthly, biweekly or weekly salary to hourly?
First turn the paycheck amount into a yearly figure: multiply a monthly salary by 12, a semi-monthly one by 24, a biweekly one by 26 and a weekly one by 52. Then divide by 2,080 for a 40-hour week. A $4,000 monthly salary is $48,000 a year, or $23.08 an hour. A $2,000 biweekly paycheck is $52,000 a year, or $25.00 an hour.
Should I divide by 2,080 or 2,087 hours?
Use 2,080 (40 hours × 52 weeks) for everyday comparisons, since it is the most common convention. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management divides federal annual pay by 2,087 hours, an average that smooths out calendar drift and leap years. The gap is about 0.3%, so $50,000 is $24.04 an hour with 2,080 and $23.96 with 2,087. To use 2,087 here, set weeks per year to 52.175.
Does paid time off change my hourly rate?
It does not change the standard conversion, but it changes what you earn for the hours you actually work. Vacation, holidays and sick days are paid, so your salary also covers hours you are not on the job. Enter your paid days off and the calculator shows both figures: $50,000 with 20 paid days off is $24.04 an hour over 2,080 paid hours and $26.04 an hour over the 1,920 hours worked.
How do I find my real hourly rate if I work more than 40 hours?
Put your actual weekly hours in Hours per week. A salary is fixed, so every extra hour lowers the rate: $60,000 is $28.85 an hour at 40 hours, $25.64 at 45 hours and $23.08 at 50 hours. The table under the calculator shows this for your salary. If you are a non-exempt employee, use the overtime field instead, because those extra hours should be paid at a premium.
Are salaried employees entitled to overtime?
Sometimes. In the U.S., being salaried does not by itself make someone exempt from overtime. Most exempt white-collar roles must be paid a minimum salary (at the time of writing $684 a week, or $35,568 a year, under federal rules, and higher in some states) and pass a job-duties test. Non-exempt employees generally get at least 1.5 times their regular rate over 40 hours a week. This is general information, not legal advice; check with your state labor department.
Is the hourly rate before or after tax?
Before. Salary figures are normally gross, and the hourly rate here is gross too. Your paycheck is smaller after federal income tax, Social Security (6.2%) and Medicare (1.45%) for employees, any state and local taxes, and deductions such as health insurance or retirement contributions. The calculator does not estimate taxes because they depend on your state, filing status and benefits. For take-home pay, use your employer's payroll estimate.