Hourly to Salary Calculator
Convert an hourly wage to annual, monthly, biweekly, weekly and daily pay, or work out the hourly rate behind a salary.
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Quick answer
At $25 an hour, 40 hours a week and 52 paid weeks, the annual salary is $52,000: $1,000 a week and about $4,333 a month. Drop to 48 paid weeks, with four unpaid, and it falls to $48,000. Annual salary is hourly rate × hours per week × paid weeks per year, so on a standard 40-hour week each $1 of hourly rate is worth $2,080 a year.
Results are estimates for general guidance and are not financial, tax or legal advice. Except where a calculator names a currency, figures carry no currency of their own: put in pounds and you get pounds back, put in rupees and you get rupees. Figures depend on the assumptions you enter and on rates that change over time. Check current rates and speak to a qualified adviser before acting on them.
About the Hourly to Salary Calculator
This calculator converts between an hourly wage and an equivalent annual salary, and back again, so a job offer quoted one way can be compared against one quoted the other.
The two directions use the same relationship: annual pay equals the hourly rate multiplied by hours worked per week and weeks worked per year. Going from salary to hourly just runs that formula in reverse.
Annual = hourly rate × hours/week × weeks/year
52 weeks/year assumes every week is paid, including any holiday. Reduce the weeks figure to reflect unpaid time off.
At $25/hour, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year: weekly pay is $1,000, monthly is about $4,333, and annual salary is $52,000. Drop to 48 paid weeks (4 weeks unpaid) and the same hourly rate becomes a $48,000 annual equivalent, a $4,000 difference from unpaid time alone.
Why two salaries at the same hourly rate can differ
A quoted annual salary already bakes in an assumption about how many weeks are actually paid. Two employers can offer the same $30/hour and mean different annual figures: one assuming 52 paid weeks (a $62,400 equivalent), another assuming a more realistic 50 paid weeks after unpaid holiday (a $60,000 equivalent).
- Ask whether a quoted annual figure assumes paid holiday, or whether time off is unpaid and therefore reduces real annual earnings.
- Overtime, bonuses and shift differentials are not part of this calculation; it converts base rate only.
- This is gross pay. Take-home pay after tax is a separate calculation. See the Paycheck or Take-Home Salary calculators.
A month is not four weeks
The quickest way to turn weekly pay into a monthly figure is to multiply by four, and it is wrong by a twelfth. A year holds 52 weeks across 12 months, so the average month is 4.33 weeks long.
- $25 an hour for 40 hours is $1,000 a week. Four of those is $4,000; the true monthly average is $52,000 ÷ 12, about $4,333.
- Paid every two weeks, the same job produces 26 checks of $2,000. Ten months of the year contain two of them and two months contain three.
- Paid twice a month, it produces 24 checks of about $2,167. The annual total is identical; each check is larger and none is ever "extra".
This matters when a budget is built on a pay stub. Someone paid every two weeks who plans around two checks a month is planning on $48,000 and will receive $52,000, with the balance arriving as the two third checks. The monthly figure this calculator shows is the annual salary divided by twelve, which is the right basis for comparing against rent and other monthly bills.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many work hours are in a year?
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A standard full-time schedule of 40 hours a week for 52 weeks is 2,080 hours a year, the figure this calculator uses by default.
Does this include overtime?
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No. It converts a base hourly rate to an equivalent salary at the hours you enter. Add overtime pay separately if it applies.
What weeks-per-year figure should I use?
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Use 52 if your annual salary already includes paid holiday. Reduce it by the number of unpaid weeks off if your job pays only for weeks actually worked.
Is this gross or net pay?
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Gross, before income tax, social security or any other deductions. Use a take-home pay calculator for the net figure.