Salary to Hourly Calculator
Convert a salary to an hourly rate, or any pay period to every other. See the rate you are paid per contract hour and what you earn for each hour you actually work, after paid time off, unpaid days and extra hours. Pin a job to compare offers.
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What this salary to hourly calculator does differently
Dividing a salary by 2,080 hours gives an hourly rate, and that is where most calculators stop. That figure counts paid holidays and leave as hours worked. It also ignores the evenings and weekends many salaried people work without extra pay. This calculator gives both numbers: the rate you are paid per contract hour, and what you earn for each hour you actually work.
| calculator.net | thecalculatorsite | This tool | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay in any period | Hour to year | Year, month, two weeks, week, day | Hour to year, eight periods |
| Paid holidays and leave | An adjusted column | Weeks worked a year | Separate paid and unpaid days off |
| Rate per hour actually worked | No | No | Yes |
| Unpaid extra hours | No | No | Yes, or paid at 1, 1.5 or 2 times |
| Year of 52 or 52.14 weeks | 52 weeks | Weeks per year field | Either |
| Compare two jobs | No | No | Pin a job and compare |
| Minimum wage check | No | No | UK and US, with sources |
| Export | None | Share link | CSV, Markdown, share link |
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How to convert a salary to an hourly rate
Divide the annual salary by the hours in a working year: hours a week times weeks a year. A salary of 52,000 at 40 hours a week over 52 weeks is 52,000 / 2,080 = 25.00 an hour. For a monthly salary, multiply by 12 first; for pay every two weeks, multiply by 26; for pay twice a month, by 24. To go the other way, multiply the hourly rate by 2,080, or by your own hours a week times 52.
A calendar year is 365 days, which is 52.14 weeks, not 52. Most calculators use 52 weeks; choose 52.14 weeks if your employer works from the calendar year. Choosing 52.14 weeks lowers the hourly rate for the same salary by about 0.3%.
Hourly rate against pay per hour actually worked
A salary pays for paid public holidays and leave as well as working days. Divide the same salary by only the hours you work, and the rate per hour is higher. Someone on 52,000 for 40 hours a week with 8 public holidays and 20 days of leave works 232 days, or 1,856 hours, so they earn about 28.02 for each hour worked against 25.00 an hour on paper.
Unpaid extra hours pull the other way. Five extra hours a week over those 46.4 working weeks is 232 more hours for the same pay, and the rate per hour worked falls to about 24.90. That figure is the honest one to use when comparing a salaried job with hourly or freelance work, or two salaried jobs with different hours and leave.
For workers in Great Britain, the statutory minimum is 5.6 weeks of paid holiday a year, which is 28 days for a five-day week, and an employer can count bank holidays within it (GOV.UK, holiday entitlement). The United States sets no federal minimum for paid holidays or leave, so the figures in an offer letter are the ones to enter.
Minimum wage check
When the currency is pounds or dollars, the calculator compares the lower of the two hourly figures with the adult minimum. In the UK that is the National Living Wage for workers aged 21 and over, £12.71 an hour from 1 April 2026; younger workers and apprentices have lower rates. In the US it is the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, and many states set a higher one. How hours count for minimum wage purposes has its own rules, so treat a warning as a reason to check, not a ruling.
Comparing two job offers
Enter the first job and press Pin as job A to compare. Then change the fields to the second job. A table shows both jobs side by side: hourly rate, pay per hour actually worked, yearly earnings and hours. A job with a higher salary and longer hours or less leave can pay less per hour worked.
How to use this calculator
- Enter your payAny amount, and how often it is paid: per hour through to per year.
- Enter your hoursContract hours and days a week, and 52 or 52.14 weeks a year.
- Add time offPaid public holidays, paid leave and any unpaid days off.
- Add extra hoursAverage hours a week over your contract, and whether they are paid.
- Read the two ratesYour hourly rate and what you earn per hour actually worked.
- Compare or exportPin the job to compare another, or download the pay periods.