Salary Calculator

Convert pay between hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and annual figures. Enter any one amount, tell the calculator which period it represents, and set your hours per week and working weeks per year — every other pay period is worked out instantly. It's the quickest way to compare a job offer quoted hourly against one quoted as a salary.

Comparing offers on equal footing

Job offers arrive in different units on purpose, and that makes them hard to compare at a glance. An "$25 an hour" role and a "$52,000 a year" role look unrelated until you convert them — at 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, $25 an hour is $52,000 a year, so they're identical. This calculator normalises everything to the same set of periods so you can line offers up directly. It also makes the hidden assumptions visible: change the hours per week or weeks per year and the annual figure shifts, which is exactly why two "$25/hour" jobs can pay very differently.

Gross pay, not take-home

The figures here are gross — before income tax, national insurance or social security, retirement contributions, and other deductions. Your actual take-home pay will be lower, and by how much depends on where you live and your personal circumstances, which no universal calculator can capture. Use these numbers to compare offers and understand the shape of your pay, then look up your local tax bands or a paycheck estimator for a net figure. Because deductions vary so widely, this tool deliberately stays with the gross amounts everyone can compare.

Salaried, hourly, and the hidden hours

Converting a salary to an hourly rate can be revealing. A comfortable-sounding annual figure divided by the hours you actually work — including unpaid overtime — sometimes tells a different story than the headline number. Conversely, an hourly role with reliable overtime can out-earn a salaried one. The hours-per-week and weeks-per-year fields let you reflect your real schedule rather than a generic 40-hour, 52-week assumption, so the comparison is honest. When you're weighing two offers, normalise both to the same period here first, then factor in benefits, stability, and paid time off, which raw pay figures never capture.

Gross pay, not take-home

This converter works with gross figures — the headline number before tax, pension, insurance, and other deductions come out. That's deliberate: those deductions depend on your country, filing status, and benefits, and no single formula fits everyone. What the tool does reliably is put offers on the same footing. A "$32/hour" contract and a "$62,000/year" salary are hard to compare until both are expressed the same way, and assumptions about hours worked per week and weeks per year change the result more than people expect. Normalise first, then apply your local tax situation to estimate take-home.

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Last updated: 2026-01-20