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Salary to Hourly Calculator
Convert an annual salary into an hourly rate based on how many hours you actually work each week — the fairest way to compare a salaried job with hourly work.
Your salary details
Your hourly rate
All figures are gross pay before taxes and deductions.
How the math works
A salary spreads the same total pay across the whole year, so converting it to an hourly rate means dividing by the total number of hours worked in a year. A year is treated as 52 weeks:
The other figures on this page come from the same total: weekly pay is the salary divided by 52, biweekly is the salary divided by 26 pay periods, and monthly pay is the salary divided by 12. The hours-per-week input only changes the hourly rate — it doesn't change how much the salary pays per week or month.
Worked example (in USD)
A salary of $52,000/year at 40 hours per week:
Hours per year: 40 × 52 = 2,080
Hourly rate: $52,000 ÷ 2,080 = $25.00/hour
That's also $1,000 a week, $2,000 biweekly, and about $4,333.33 a month.
Common gotchas
- Your real hours change the answer a lot. $52,000 at 40 hours a week is $25.00/hour — but at 50 hours a week with no overtime pay, it's $20.00/hour. Always convert using the hours you'll actually work, not the hours in the job posting.
- Salaried pay usually has no overtime premium. An hourly worker earning $25/hour who works 50 hours gets paid for 55 hours' worth (40 + 10 × 1.5). A salaried exempt worker gets the same salary either way. Comparing hourly rates alone understates that difference.
- Benefits aren't in the salary. Paid time off, employer health insurance, and retirement matching are worth real money and aren't captured by this conversion. Two offers with the same hourly equivalent can be worth quite different amounts.
- Monthly pay isn't salary ÷ 12 in every paycheck sense. Monthly is an average for budgeting. If you're paid biweekly, most months you receive two checks and two months a year you receive three.