Hourly to salary calculator
Enter an hourly rate or a yearly salary, along with the hours and weeks you actually work, to see the same pay every way it's quoted.
That's a yearly salary of
$46,800.00
$22.50 an hour, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year
How to use it
- Choose whether you're starting from an hourly rate or a yearly salary.
- Enter the figure you know.
- Set the hours a week you actually work and the weeks a year you're actually paid for. 40 and 52 are the standard assumptions behind most job ads.
- Read the yearly, monthly, biweekly, weekly and daily amounts, and compare offers on the same footing.
Worked example
$22.50 an hour, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year.
Hours a year: 2,080. Yearly salary: $22.50 × 2,080 = $46,800. Monthly $3,900.00, every two weeks $1,800.00, weekly $900.00, daily $180.00.
The other way: a $55,000 salary at 40 hours and 52 weeks is $55,000 ÷ 2,080 = $26.44 an hour. If that job expects 45-hour weeks, it’s really $23.50.
How this is calculated
The conversion is hours a week times weeks a year: at 40 hours and 52 weeks that's 2,080 hours, and an hourly rate times 2,080 is the yearly salary. Monthly pay is the salary divided by twelve, biweekly pay is the salary divided by twenty-six, weekly pay is the hourly rate times the hours, and daily pay assumes a five-day week. The weeks field is where the honest comparison happens: a salaried job pays for 52 weeks including vacation, while an hourly job that gives two unpaid weeks off is really 50 weeks, and a contractor who takes a month off and gets no holidays is closer to 46. Everything is gross pay, before tax; the paycheck calculator takes it the rest of the way.
hours a year = hours a week × weeks a year
yearly salary = hourly rate × hours a year, or hourly rate = yearly salary ÷ hours a year
monthly = yearly ÷ 12 · biweekly = yearly ÷ 26 · weekly = hourly × hours a week · daily = weekly ÷ 5
All amounts are before tax and deductions.
Rates, sources and limits
Gross pay only, before tax, benefits and deductions. Overtime, bonuses and unpaid time off change the real figure. Not financial advice.
Last reviewed 23 Sep 2026 by the CalcRabbit team. Estimates only, not financial, tax or medical advice.
Frequently asked questions
Why 2,080 hours?
It's 40 hours times 52 weeks, the convention behind almost every hourly-to-salary conversion in the US, including how HR departments quote an hourly job's "annual equivalent". It assumes you're paid for every week of the year, holidays included.
How do I compare an hourly offer with a salaried one?
Put the salary in with the hours you'd really work, including the unpaid extra ones, to get its true hourly rate. Then put the hourly offer in with the weeks you'd actually be paid for, subtracting unpaid time off. Compare the two yearly figures, then think about benefits, which can be worth 20% to 30% of salary on top.
What about overtime?
Hourly employees who aren't exempt get 1.5 times the rate past 40 hours a week. The calculator uses a single rate, so for a job with regular overtime, enter your average weekly hours at the straight rate to get a floor, or work out the overtime hours separately at 1.5 times.
Is monthly pay really the salary divided by 12?
For budgeting, yes. But if you're paid every two weeks you get 26 paychecks, and two months a year contain three of them. Budget on the biweekly figure times two, and treat the extra checks as a bonus.