Salary and hourly calculator

How to use this page

1. Replace the sample numbers with your own. Nothing is sent to a server.
2. Read the result. It changes as you type.
3. Open the formula if you want to recompute the result by hand.
4. Copy the result if you want to keep it. The numbers you type stay in this browser and are not added to the address.

Formula

Annual pay = hourly pay × hours per week × weeks per year. Hourly pay = annual pay ÷ (hours × weeks). Monthly pay here is annual ÷ 12, not a count of working days. A check: 52,000 a year at 40 hours and 52 weeks is 25 an hour.

Weeks are doing more work than they look

A person who is paid 52 weeks, including paid leave, should leave weeks at 52 if the annual salary already includes that leave. A contractor who takes four unpaid weeks should type 48, or the hourly rate will look lower than the rate they need to bill.

Overtime, night premiums, and unpaid lunch are not in the formula. If a 40-hour figure includes an unpaid hour each day, type the hours that are actually paid.

This is not a paycheck

Income tax, social insurance, pension contributions, local tax, and health insurance are not computed. Brackets differ by country, filing status, and deductions, and a wrong bracket would be worse than no bracket. If you already know your effective tax rate, take the annual figure to the percentage calculator and subtract that percent.

Monthly pay of annual ÷ 12 will not match a payroll calendar that pays biweekly 26 times a year. Twenty-six biweekly checks are 52 weeks, but two months a year contain three checks. Divide annual pay by 26 yourself if that is the question.

Easy mistakes

• Comparing a W-2 salary with a contractor rate without setting aside unpaid leave and tax.
• Leaving weeks at 52 when the work is a 10-month school year.
• Reading the monthly figure as take-home pay.