Free Salary Calculator
Convert between hourly, weekly, monthly, and annual pay.
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Short answer
Annual salary equals hourly rate × hours per week × 52 (US standard). All other frequencies are proportional slices of the annual figure.
What is the Salary Calculator?
Converts pay across the frequencies people use to negotiate, budget, and file taxes.
How does the Salary Calculator work?
Anchor everything to annual. Multiply or divide by the standard frequency factors to move between hourly, weekly, biweekly, monthly, and yearly.
Formula
Variables
hpwHours worked per weekwpyWeeks worked per year
Explanation
US convention uses 40 hpw × 52 wpy = 2,080 hours annually. Adjust for PTO or part-time schedules.
Examples
Example 1: $25/hr at 40 hpw
$52,000/year, $4,333/mo, $2,000/bw, $1,000/wk.
Applications
- Salary negotiation
- Freelance rate-setting
- Cross-role comparisons
Advantages
- Instantly comparable across formats
- Configurable hours and weeks
Limitations
- Gross pay only — no tax, benefits, or overtime
Common mistakes
- Using 50 weeks (2 weeks PTO) but comparing to a colleague who used 52
Tips
- A quick shortcut: hourly × 2 = annual in thousands (e.g., $25/hr ≈ $50k) at 40 hpw
Related concepts
The Salary Calculator sits inside the Finance Calculators hub, in the taxes & income cluster. Pay, withholding and tax liability. Understanding the terms below makes the output easier to interpret and easier to compare against neighbouring measures.
Practical use cases and industry applications
Understanding Salary
Converts pay across the frequencies people use to negotiate, budget, and file taxes. Within finance calculators, salary belongs to the taxes & income cluster, where it shares terminology and assumptions with closely related tools.
Learning how salary is calculated
US convention uses 40 hpw × 52 wpy = 2,080 hours annually. Adjust for PTO or part-time schedules. Working through the variables one at a time — hpw, wpy — makes the result reproducible by hand and easier to sanity-check.
Using salary to make a decision
Salary negotiation Freelance rate-setting Cross-role comparisons Because outputs depend on the assumptions you enter, run more than one scenario before committing to a figure.
How salary compares with related measures
marginal rate, effective rate, withholding, deduction all describe adjacent aspects of taxes & income. Comparing this calculator's output against those measures — using the related tools listed on this page — prevents a single metric from being read in isolation.
Frequently asked questions
Does this account for overtime?
No. Overtime pay (1.5×) must be added separately based on hours over 40 per week.
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