Convert any hourly wage into its equivalent annual salary — plus monthly, biweekly, weekly and daily pay. Perfect for comparing hourly job offers against salaried ones.
Job hunting forces an unfair comparison: one offer says $62,000 a year, another says $29 an hour, and your brain has to decide which is better without a common unit. The conversion is simple — hourly wage × hours per week × 52 weeks — but almost nobody does it carefully, and small errors compound. At 40 hours a week, every $1/hour equals $2,080 a year. That 'small' $2/hour difference between offers is $4,160 annually — a full month's rent in many US cities.
The trap runs both ways. Hourly workers eyeing salaried roles often underestimate what the salary is worth per hour, while salaried workers considering hourly gig work forget that hourly pay usually stops when the hours stop — no paid holidays, no guaranteed 40 hours. Converting first, then adjusting for benefits and schedule reality, is the only honest comparison.
The default 40 hours × 52 weeks = 2,080 hours describes a classic full-time, year-round schedule. Deviate from it whenever reality differs. Part-time at 30 hours a week? Enter 30. Seasonal work at 44 weeks? Enter 44. Two weeks of unpaid time off? Enter 50 weeks. Each adjustment changes the annual figure, sometimes dramatically: $25/hour is $52,000 at full-time but only $32,500 at 25 hours a week.
Overtime deserves its own line in your thinking. If you regularly work 45 hours with 5 at time-and-a-half, your true annual earnings exceed the base conversion — compute the base here, then add overtime separately with our overtime calculator. Similarly, shift differentials, tips, and bonuses sit on top of the base wage; this calculator converts the wage itself, giving you the clean foundation to build on.
A $58,000 salary and $27.88/hour are mathematically identical at 2,080 hours — but the jobs behind them rarely are. Salaried roles typically bundle health insurance, paid time off, retirement matching, and income stability. Hourly roles may offer overtime premiums, schedule flexibility, or higher base rates to compensate for thinner benefits. When offers are close after conversion (within 5%), benefits usually decide the winner.
Taxes are the final layer. These are gross figures; a $60,000 salary doesn't mean $60,000 in your pocket. Federal income tax, state tax, Social Security (6.2% up to $184,500 in 2026) and Medicare (1.45%) all come out first. Run the converted salary through our paycheck calculator to see take-home pay — that's the number your budget actually lives on.
Three multiplications — but the hours and weeks you enter must reflect your real schedule, not an idealized one.
Hourly wage: $28. Hours per week: 40. Weeks per year: 52.
Annual salary: 28 × 40 × 52 = **$58,240**. Monthly: $4,853. Biweekly paycheck (before tax): $2,240. Weekly: $1,120. Daily (8-hour day): $224.
Now compare against a $60,000 salary offer: $60,000 ÷ 2,080 = $28.85/hour. The salary offer is worth about $0.85 more per hour — roughly $1,768 a year. Without converting, the two offers look deceptively similar; with the math, the salary wins clearly.
Multiply your hourly wage by hours worked per week, then by 52 weeks. The formula is: annual salary = hourly wage × hours/week × 52. A $25/hour full-time worker (40 hrs/week) earns $52,000 a year.
Yes — that's exactly what the hours-per-week and weeks-per-year inputs are for. A part-time worker at $20/hour working 25 hours/week for 50 weeks earns $25,000, not the $41,600 a full-time schedule would imply.
No. These are gross (pre-tax) figures. Your take-home pay will be lower after federal tax, state tax, Social Security and Medicare. Use our paycheck calculator to see the after-tax reality.
$15/hour × 40 × 52 = $31,200 per year. That's about $2,600/month and $1,200/week before taxes.
$30/hour × 40 × 52 = $62,400 per year — roughly $5,200/month and $2,400 biweekly before taxes.
Unpaid time off directly reduces annual earnings, so lower the weeks-per-year input (e.g., 50 instead of 52 for two unpaid weeks). Paid vacation and holidays are normally included in the 52-week figure since you're paid for them.